a sontawtsmany 0251 ‘Second Semester LL.M. (2 Years) (IPR Laws/Constitutional Law/ Business & Trade Law) Examination, June/July 2016 LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Duration : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 80 Instructions : 1. Answer all questions. 2. Figures to the right indicate marks. .No. 1.(a) Explain the merits and demerits of seminar method. OR State the objectives of legal education in India and explain the problems and prospects of legal education in India. Write a note on i) Clinical Lega! Education OR ii) Law Reforms. Q. No. 2.(a) Discuss the status of socio-legal research in India. oR Distinguish between doctrinal and non-doetrinal research. State the advantages of non-doctrinal research aver doctrinal research, Write short note on i) Merits of Inductive method. OR ii) Deductive method. Q.No. 3.(a) Explain the relevance of juristic writings and foreign judgements in legal research. OR Write an explanatory note on selection of research problem.SOM LAW ammaRy (b). Write short note on = 1 Subordinate legislation. ., OR ji) Rule of a case. Q.No. 4.(a) Explain the procedure of analysis and interpretation of data. Marks : 10 OR f What is sampling ? Explain different methods of drawing sample. (0) Write short note on ‘iy Scalingtechnique. oR ii) Computerized research. Q.No. 5.(a) Discuss various methods of writing thesis. OR Explain the importance of ‘Research Report’ in the field of legal research. (b) Write short note on : i), Method of Citation. oR ii) Paragraphing.(a 0251 ‘Second Semester LL.M. (I.P.R/Const/B&T) Examination, June/July 2015 LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Duration : 3 Hours: Instructions: 1. Answer all questions. 2, Figures to the right indicate marks, Q.No. 1. (a) ‘To prepare professionally competent lawyers and impartial judges-legal education must continuously adopt itself to the ‘changing needs of the profession’ -examine this statement with reference to the teaching methodology in law colleges, OR What are the maladies and remedies relating to the examination system with special reference to law ‘examinations ? Write short notes on (i) Lawreforms OR (ii) Clinical legal education. Examine the broad areas of differences between doctrinal and non-doctrinal research: What are the limitations of empirical research ? oR Discuss the status of legal research in India. Write short notes on (i) Stepsin the deductive method OR (ii) Objectives of legal research Max. Marks : 80 Marks 100251 mw Q..No. 3. (a) Whatié a research problem ? Explain the procedure by which an appropriate research problem may be selected by the researcher Marks : 10 OR Enumerate the primary source materials of legal research Write short notes on: (i) Subordinate legislation OR (ii) Reterence to foreign decisions, Q.No. 4. (@) ‘Research problem and research design are the hall marks of a research work’. Explain this proposition undertining the need and the precautions relevant with special reference to earch design. OR ‘A well-framed questionnaire and an appropriate procedure would enable the researcher to obtain data with minimum bias’ comment. Write short notes on (i) Use of computers in legal research. OR (li) Non-participant observation Writing a legal research report is a technical activity whi demarids skills and patience from the legal researcher. Evaluate. Marks : 10 OR Explain the rules relating to the citation of reference materials inlegal research Write short notes on {i) Footnotes oR (ii) Style and language in research report.‘an 0251 Second Semester LL.M. (IPR/Const./B&T) Examination, December 2014 LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Duration: 3 Hours: Max. Marks : 80 Instructions: 1. Answerall questions. 2. Figures to the right indicate marks. Q.No. 1.(a) “Rationalization of practical taining programme is necessary to make legal education more professional and community oriented”. Discuss. Marks : 10 OR Examination is an inevitable evil of our education system’ Examine this statement with reference to need for reformulation of present day law examination system. Lecture method of teaching, oR Objectives of legal education. Q.No. 2. (a) Distinguish between doctrinal and non-doctrinal research. Which type of research needs to be encouraged in India ? OR Explain in brief the various tools and techniques that are used in the collection of data in empirical research. Constraints in social research. OR Induction method.What is a research problem ? Explain the procedure by which a good research problem may be selected by a researcher? Mats : 10 OR Explain the importance of review of literature before the selection of a research problem. Importance of subordinate legislation OR Role of reports and special studies. Explain the importance of the use of historical and comparative research materials in legal research oR What are the comparative merits and demerits of questionnaire and interview techniques ? Use of computers in legal research. OR Classification and tabulation of data. Discuss the important features of writing research report. Marks : 10 OR Explain the methods and advantages of footnotes and bibliography. Chapterization. oR Descriptive method of research.1 aN 0251 11 Semester of LL.M. ( IPR/Const/B &T) Examination, June/July 2014 LEGAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Duration : 3 Hours Max, Marks : 80 Instructions: 1. Answer all questions. Figures to the right indicate marks. siain the merits and demerits of lecture method of teaching Marks: 10 OR piscuss the problems relating to examination system and evaluation, Write a note on Student participation in law school programmes. oR Legal aid, @.No.2.(a) Explain the significance of empirical research In legal research OR Discuss the status of socio-legal research in India. Write a note on Marks : 6 Inductive method OR Non-doctrinal research. Q.No.3.(a) Enumerate the significance of legislation and precedents in legal research. Marks oR What is a research problem ? How do you identify a good ch problem.Q. No. 4. (a) Q.No. 5. (a) | Write a note on Foreign periodicals and its relevance in resea OR ‘Subordinate legislation and its use in legal research. What is sampling ? Explain different types of sampling Marks: 1 oR Explain the significance of case study method in legal research, Write a note on Marks : 6 Historical Research OR Scaling technique Explain the art of writing the thesis. Marks : 10 OR Explain the use of bibliography and footnotes in legal research. Write a note on Chapterization. OR Title of the thesis,Tan Second Semester LL.M. Examination, June 2013 LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Duration : 3 Hou Max. Marks : 80 Instructions : 1. Answer all Questions. 2. Figures to the right indicate marks. 3. Answer one essay type and one short note question from each Unit. Q.No. 1. (a) Clinical Legal Education fs concomitant for better legal Education — Elucidate, Marks : 10 oR Explain the merits and demerits of lecture method. Write short notes on Examination system. Marks :6 oR Organisation of Seminar. Q.No.2.(a) Explain Doctrinal Research in law ? Distinguish Doctrinal and non-doctrinal research Marks : 10 oR Discuss the status of socio-Legal Research in India. Write short notes on Inductive method. Marks : 6 OR Merits of empirical Research. What is bibliography ? State the significance of Bibliographical research inlaw. Marks : 10 oR umerate the relevance of legislations and precedents in al research.Q. No. (a (b) Write short notes on Report of law commissions. Marks : 6 oR Selection of a research problem (a) What is Research Design ? Examine the implications of a esearch without research design. Marks : 10 OR Discuss observation method as a data gathering too! Marks comparative Re arious methods of writing thesis. Marks : 10 OR Explain the relevance of research report and what ai broad outlines of research reports. (b) Write short notes on ting skills oR of the thesis:M Law Library Second Semester LL.M. Examination, December 2012 LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Duration : 3 Hours Max, Marks : 80 Instructions : 1. Answer all questions.” 2, Figures to the right indicate marks. Q.No. 1. (a) ‘Legal aid and legal literacy programmes increase the opportunity to access to justice for the poor’. Elucidate. Marks : 10 oR ‘Law colleges share the entire responsibilty of skill raining as law graduates directly enter the legal profession without any further training or any Bar examination. Analyse this statement in view of the importance of clinical legal education at law schools. Write a.short note on “Teaching legal-problem solving skills should be the primary goal of professional legal education. Marks: 6 OR The advantages and disadvantages of external and internal assessment, Q.No. 2, (a) Discuss the status of legal research in India. Marks :10 oR Distinguish between doctrinal and non-docttinal research. Which type of research needs to be encouraged in India ? Elucidate. Write a note on Steps in the deductive method. oR Socio-legal research in India.SDM Law Library 0251 Q. No. 3.(a) Whatis aresearch problem ? Explain the procedure by which a worthwhile research problem may be selected by a researcher. oR Explain the importance of precedent as the source material in legal research. . Write an explanatory note on (i) Subordinate legistation OR (i) Survey of Juristic Literature. Q.No. 4.(a) ‘Astep of designing an idealized research design might seem very impracticable and even an unnecessary one’. Examine the implications of a research without research design. OR ‘A.well framed questionnaire and appropriate procedure will allow you to obtain the data you need and minimises the bias. Explain Write a note on Classification and tabulation of data. OR Use of observation technique. What are the contents or essentials of a research report. OR Explain the use and method of foot noting in research report. Write an explanatory note on (i) Style and tanguage oR (il) The reference materia. Marks :10 Marks : 10 Marks : 6‘AO Second Semester LL.M. Examination, June 2011 LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (Course - 1) Duration :3 Hours Max. Marks : 80 Instructions ; 1. Answer all questions 2. Figures ta the right indicate marks. Q. No. |. (@) Explhin the merits and demerits of leetiire method in law. OR Discussitie objectives and significance of clinical lepat education. — Marks: 1 Write whore on Seminar method of Law Teaching OR Law Reforms Explain the utility of empirical research in the Meld of ley R Discuss the states of socio-egal research in Indic Maries : 10 Write a note cn Advantayes pf Inductive Method. oR Objectives of legal esearch in lndia Discussthe importance of legislative materials in legal reveurch, OR Explain the method of surveying juristic writings and puristic literature in Indian and foreign periedicals, Maks 10 Weite a noteon Rute of the ease oR Bibliographical0281 ‘0 Q. No.4, (a) Explain the criteria to be considered in the selection ofa research proglems oR What is sampling ? Explain different methods of drawing ample Weitea note on Historical method of research oR Use of sealing technique Discuss varlous methods of witing the thesis, Explain the importance of Research Report in the field of | research, Write a note on Mettiod of Citation OR Analytisal redearch,wi Second Semester LL.M. E3 ion, June2010 LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (Course - 1) A Max. Marks : 80 Instructions: 1, Answer all questions. to the right indicate marks. education, What are the problem n in India? sbjectives and advantay the factors that hinder the progress ¢ in doctrinal research is the order of the day’. What are the vantages of it when compared with the doctrinal researchOT) ntification of a good research problem should d a discovery in itself”, Explain this staterhent from of view of need for selection of a sui OR te the significance of legislation and precedent i h report he use of raphy and footnotesA ey 0252 Second Semester LL.M. (2 Years) (IPR Laws/Constitutional Law/ Business and Trade Law) Examination, June/July 2016 LAW MAKING PROCESSES Duration: 3 Hours Max. Marks Instructions: 1. Answer all questions. 2. Figures to the right indicate marks. 3, Answers should be written only in English. Q.No. 1.(a) ‘The operation of custom is apparent in many branches of law, more clearly in our family laws’ ~ Elucidate. oR Examine the role of custom as an instrument of social ordering, Customs and codification: oR Adverse impact of customs on social development. Q.No. 2.(a) Examine the superiority of legislation as source of law in comparison with other sources of law. Marks OR Explain the procedure for law making in the Indian Parliament Golden rule of interpretation OR Referential approach, Q.No.3.(a) Examine the role of values in rendering justice. oR Explain the role of equity as a source of law in progressive societies. Justice in the sense of distributive and corrective equality. Marks : 6 OR Courts of chancery in England,0252 SOMLAW LiMRARY Q.No. 4.(a). Examine the various issues relating to problems of accountability and judicial law making. oR \Narrate the role of Supreme Court of India in realizing the constitutional goals and values. Judicial activism-scope and limits. OR Independence of judiciary and the ‘political’ nature of judicial process. Critically evaluate the statement that ‘justice is nothing more than the positive law of the stronger claus”. OR Discuss the idea of justice during the medieval period. Dharma as the foundation of legal ordering in indian thought. OR Relations between law and justice.a ai 0252 ll Semester LL.M. (.P.R/Consv/B & 7) Degree Examination, June/July 2015 LAW MAKING PROCESSES Duration: 3 Hours Max. Marks : 80 Instructions : 1. Answer all 5 questions. 2, Part (a) carries 10 marks. 3. Part (b) carries 6 marks. Q.No. 1.(a) “Mostof the customs in modern societies are non-legal and therefore not obligatory in the fullest sense of that term" Discuss. Marks : 10 OR Analyse the requirements of customs to be recognized as laws. Write note on Marks : 6 Customs and rationality OR Local customs and usages, Q.No. 2.(a) Discuss legislation as a source of law. OR Explain the rules relating to interpretation of statutes with special reference to golden rule, Write note on Use of extrinsic material, OR Literal or plain meaning rule0252 Q.No. 3.(a) Q.No. 4.(a) (Mv Discuss in detail the role of values in rendering justice Marks : 10 oR Explain the role of Panchayath Ral Institutions in strengthening grass root democracy in India. Write note on Administrative convenience. oR Equity and Courts of Chancery in England ‘What is just law ? Justice is dependent on social action and not on law— Evaluate, Marks: 10 OR Discuss creativity in constitutional adjudication. ) Write note on Q.No. 5. (a) Notions of judicial review. oR Judicial activism. Dharma is that which sustains and ensures progress and welfare of alin this world and etemal bliss in the other world” —(Parashara Samhithi). Examine the concept of dharma the foundation of legal ordering in Indian thought in the light of above statement. oR -Justice is nothing more than the positive law of stronger class". Explain Write note on. Notion of justice and the Indian Constitution oR Dependency theories,TF 0252 ll Semester LL.M. (IPR/Cons/B&T) Examination, December 2014 LAW MAKING PROCESSES Duration : 3 Hours: Max. Marks : 80 Instructions: 1. Answer all questions. 2. Figures to the right indicate marks. Q. No. 1. (a) Discuss general, local and mercantile customs. OR Explain the requirements of customs to be recognised by the apex court, Adverse impact of customs on social developments. oR ‘Clear usage will outweigh the written text of the Law’ Comment. Q. No. 2.(a) Discuss legislation as a source of law and its relation with other sources of Marks : 10 oR Briefly explain different types of legistations Write about law making by Indian Parliament. Marks : 6 OR Golden Rule of interpretation. Q.No. 3.(a) “Values of National, social safety and social welfare are paramount considered to other values of justice”. Examine. Marks : 10 oR Discuss equity as a source of law in progressive societies.(b) Q. No. 5. (a) {M0 Write a note on Marks : 6 Value judgements on conflicting interests. OR lationship between equity and Dharma in Indian context. Discuss judicial process as an instrument of social ordering. Marks : 10 OR Explain dimensions of judicial process in constitutional adjudication. Judicial process in pursuit of constitutional goals and values. Marks : 6 OR Institutional liability of courts and judicial activism, uss Dharma as the foundation of legal ordering in Indian thought Marks : 10 OR Examine various theoretical bases of justice. )_ Justice in the context of Indian constitutional ordering. Marks : 6 OR Justice in the Western thought.SDM Law tbe OT 0252 Second Semester LL.M. (IPR/Const/B&T) Degree Examination, June/July 2014 LAW MAKING PROCESSES ation : 3 Hours rks = 80 (a) Custom as an important source of law in eat its importance continuously diminishes as the legal system grows. Critically analyse. Marks : 10 oR, Custom embodies right and justice as acknowledged and approved, not by the power of the state, but by the public opinion of the society at large. Comment. Wiite brief note on Mercantile custom. oR Adverse impact of customs. Q.No. Il. (a). Legistation is that source of law which consists the dectaration of legal rules by a competent authority. Comment oR ‘Legislation is either supreme or subordinate’. Comment Wiite brief note on Drafting of bills on Mischief rule of interpretation Q.No. Ill.(a). ‘The discretion in the administration of justice is controlled bya sense of value which constitute a consensual domain that keep projudice in check’. Justify, Marks : 10 oR P10.Q. No. IV.(a) Q. No. V. (a) ‘AEE a ‘Atalltimes sanctity of the individual may have to yield before national security. Critically analyse Write brief note on Right of the individual and need of the community at large. OR Justice in the sense of distributive and corrective equality. Explain the social change and common law tradition. OR Critically examine the ‘independence’ of judiciary and the ‘political’ nature of judicial process. Write note on Judicial activism. OR Legal reasoning al period Both Rajadharma and Prajadharma make the ruler and ruled to be duty bound. Comment. Write brief note on Justice and law. or Justice under western thoughtuve Second Semester LL.M. Examination, June LAW MAKING PROCESS Duration : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 60 Instructions : 1. Answerall 5 questions. 2, Essay carries — 10 Short notes — 6. Answer one essay type and one short note question from each unit, Q.No. 1. (a) “When society possesses accredited law givers or tribunals, iis partof their function to supervise the operation of custom’ — Evaluate oR Explain the adverse impact of customs on social development and welfare Marks : 10 (b) Write note on: Custom in early societies. oR Need to recognise customs as laws. Q. No. 2. (a) Explain the procedure required for the making of the law by the legislature OR Discuss purposive approach and mischief rule in interpretation of legislature Write note on Referential approach. OR Relation between sovereign and subordinate legislation. Marks : 6 Pro.0252 Q.No. 3. (2 Q.No. 4. (a) Q.No. 5. (a) OT Examine the relationship between equity and Dharma in Indian context. OR Discuss the chief equitable principles of Roman law. Write note on Equity through common law, OR International comity ‘For its realisation justice depends on law but justice is not the same as law’ — Evaluate oR Critically explain the problems of accountability in judicial law making. 10 Write note on Special dimensions of judicial process in constitutional adjudication, OR ‘ols and techniques of judicial creativity Marks : 6 Evaluate the concept of Dharma as the foundation of legal ordering in India. OR The theories of justice prevailed in westem Europe and united States were amalgamation of Greco-Roman thought of justice. Briefly sketch the development of westem legal thought. Marks : 10 rite note on latural law theory. oR Influence of themes of justice in Supreme Court decisions. Marks : 6‘wi Second Semester L1..M. Examination, June 2011 LAW MAKING PROCESSES (Course No, 1) Duration 23 Hau Instrue Answer all Questions. OLNo. 1. 2, Figures to the right indicate marks, Critically exaniine custom as « 4ouree of Taw. OR Examine the role of customasan instrument of soeial ord Writew short note on i) Cuntomiand positive morality OR i) Theory of custom in Roman law, Discuss the procedure of law making by the parliament of India oR Jucielary evolves the Taw and beings changes in it through interpretation. Enlighten this statement with reference to mules of interpretation, Write # short nite on 1) Supreme leisation, OR i) Use of extrinsic tnaterial in intelpretati with sanetily of the person ahd of property give Way When th afety of the mation ne society is at stake”. Disenss how value ‘ifter fest fndlividual oneern tw nation's coneern, oR amine the relation between common law and equityOLE Write iy short Marks 6 1) Values and internatjonial comiy. oR ii) Rquity a6 a source of Withthe helpofleadii ease lnwe eritically examine the creative role of ajudge which amounts to judisial activism, OR Examine the various techniques adopted in judielal creativity Write short note on Marks: 6 ) Statutory and codified ‘OR i) Independence of judiciary 155 the ancient Indiay eoncept of ‘Dharma Analyse few decisions of Sippreme Court which are essentially based on the theories of justice. Write a shortnote on i) Liberal moral tradition, OR lp) Theory of jystice in western thoughtonan Second Semester of LL.M. Examination, June2010 LAW MAKING PROCESS (Course ~ 1) Instructions : 1. Answer all questions Figures to the right indicate marks value judgement ? How doefu wa rite short note on Marks ) Judicial impersonality OR Equity and Dharma. the role of the judge as guarantor of le of the Supreme Court of Indi(We 00 SDMA may 0253 Second Semester LL.M. (2 Years) (IPR Laws/Constitutional Law/ Business & Trade Law) Examination, June/July 2016 LEGAL CONCEPTS Duration : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 80 Instructions: 1. Answer all five questions 2. Figure to the right indicate marks. 3. Answers should be written only in English. Q.No. 1. (a) Explain the nature, and scope of rights. oR Discuss the Jural correlatives, opposites and contradictories Under Hohfeldian analysis of rights. Write short note on Marks 26 Power and liability OR Vested and contingent right A child in its mother’s womb is for many purposes regarded by a legal fiction as already born. Elucidate. Marks : 10 OR Principles of Criminal liability of corporation are still unsettled. Explain. Write short note on Marks : 6 Beneficiary of legal corporation. oR Kinds of persons.Rights of property in material thingsare general use, permanent and inheritable, Elucidate oR Explain the lease and distinguish it from servitude. Write a Short note Abuse of patent rights. oR Movable and immovable property. Explain the idea of possession and differentiate it from ownership, oR Explain the possession th fact Write a short note Incorporeal possession oR Kinds of Mediate possession. ‘Analyse the concept of ownership and its functions in, social engineering. oR “Possession is 9 points in law” — Discuss. Write a short note Austin definition of property. oR Contingent ownership. Marks : 6 Marks : 10 Marks : 6 10 Marks : 6NE 0253 Ml Semester LL.M. (I.P.R/Const/B&T) Examination, June/July 2015 LEGAL CONCEPTS Duration: 3 Hours Max. Marks : 80 Instructions : 1. Answer all questions. 2. Part (a) of each question carries 10 marks and Part (b) carries 6 marks. Q. No. 1. (a) Explain the right and duty in strict sense. OR Explain the criticisms of Stone on Hohteld’s table. Write short notes Concept of power. OR Concept of liberty. ‘In the taw, there may be men who are not persons and persons who are not men’. Critically comment oR Judicial approach in holding corporations criminally liable. Short notes Legal status of dead man. OR Juristic personality. Q..No. 3. (a) Explain the rationality of restrictions on the use and enjoyment of private property. OR Discuss the product and process patent nghts with their merits and demerits.(©) Write short notes : Jarra in re propria. OR Definition of property. Q..No. 4. (a) Whatare the criteria judiciary takes into consideration, while determining the possession, oR Explain the Salmond's and Pollock's theory of possession. (b) Write short notes : Possessory remedies. OR Immediate and mediate possession. Q.No. 5. (a) Explain the ownership as power and liberty. OR Explain the difference between possession and ownership. (b) Write short notes: Concept of ownership in social welfare stato. OR Trust and benifical ownership,smn 0253 ll Semester LL.M. (IPR/Const/B&T) Examination, December 2014 LEGAL CONCEPTS Duration : 3 Hours ‘Max. Marks : 80 Instructions : 1. Answer all questions. 2. Figures to the right indicate marks. Q.No. 1.(a) “The correlation of claim and duty is not perfect, nor did Holifeld assets that it was". Examine, Marks : 10 OR Describe the relationship between power and liability. Evaluate Holifeld’s analysis. Marks : 6 oR Explain characteristics of a legal rights. Q.No. 2.(a) Explain theories of the nature of legal persons. Marks : 10 OR ‘When it becomes necessary to control freedom of action, the courts ‘pierce’ or ‘it the veil’ of corporate personality" — Discuss. Write @ note on legal status of unborn persons. Marks : 6 OR Write a note on uses and purposes of incorporation. Q.No. 3.(a) Describe property. Explain movable and immovable property. Marks : 10 OR Explain different kinds of immaterial property Write a note on Jurisprudential aspects of protection of plant varieties. Marks : 6 oR Explain real and personal property.