This document outlines the curriculum for a Comparative Public Law course. The course is 3 credit units and involves 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of tutorial per week. The purpose of the course is to equip students with knowledge of different legal systems around the world and compare governance systems. The course contains 4 modules that cover public law fundamentals, legal system classifications, theories of governance, and analyses of major world constitutions. Student assessment includes assignments, tests, and a final exam worth 50% each. The course aims to help students understand, analyze, apply and evaluate different principles of governance and legal systems.
This document outlines the curriculum for a Comparative Public Law course. The course is 3 credit units and involves 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of tutorial per week. The purpose of the course is to equip students with knowledge of different legal systems around the world and compare governance systems. The course contains 4 modules that cover public law fundamentals, legal system classifications, theories of governance, and analyses of major world constitutions. Student assessment includes assignments, tests, and a final exam worth 50% each. The course aims to help students understand, analyze, apply and evaluate different principles of governance and legal systems.
This document outlines the curriculum for a Comparative Public Law course. The course is 3 credit units and involves 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of tutorial per week. The purpose of the course is to equip students with knowledge of different legal systems around the world and compare governance systems. The course contains 4 modules that cover public law fundamentals, legal system classifications, theories of governance, and analyses of major world constitutions. Student assessment includes assignments, tests, and a final exam worth 50% each. The course aims to help students understand, analyze, apply and evaluate different principles of governance and legal systems.
This document outlines the curriculum for a Comparative Public Law course. The course is 3 credit units and involves 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of tutorial per week. The purpose of the course is to equip students with knowledge of different legal systems around the world and compare governance systems. The course contains 4 modules that cover public law fundamentals, legal system classifications, theories of governance, and analyses of major world constitutions. Student assessment includes assignments, tests, and a final exam worth 50% each. The course aims to help students understand, analyze, apply and evaluate different principles of governance and legal systems.
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FORMAT FOR COURSE CURRICULUM Annexure ‘CD-01’
L T P/ SW/F TOTAL Course Title: Comparative Public Law S W CREDIT Course Code: LAW669 UNITS Credit Units: 3 1 2 0 0 3 Level: PG
# Course Title Weightage %
1 Course Objectives:
The purpose of this course is to equip the students with a broad spectrum of legal and judicial systems in the fast globalizing world and give them brief knowledge about the various systems of governance and to draw a comparison between them.
2 Prerequisites: Nil
3 Course Learning Outcomes: The student will be able to - 1. Understand the Principles, objects and forms of Governance 2. Focus on the application of system of governance to various constitutions. 3. Analyse the various systems of Governance – Unitary, federal, Presidential & Parliamentary. 4. Evaluate the system of Constitutional Governance and various legal systems.
Course Contents / Syllabus:
4 Module I Preliminaries 25% Weightage
Comparative law: meaning, scope & objects; techniques of making comparative
legal studies: comparison between theories, systems, countries, jurisdictions, old & new versions of laws, etc; Public law: meaning, scope and contents, difference between public and private law; major contents of public law, enforcement of public laws; scope of comparative public law.
5 Module II Classification of Legal Systems 25% Weightage
Common law, civil law, socialist law, faith-based laws; salient features of all these systems; major countries belonging to various systems; India as a common law country; civil law belts in India; elements of socialist and religious laws in Indian legal system
6 Module III Theories and Forms of Governance 25% Weightage
Meaning & theories of governance; federal & unitary systems; parliamentary & presidential systems; monarchy, constitutional monarchy; theocracy & state secularity; oligarchy & presidium system; examples, merits and demerits of each of these forms in various parts of the world; mixture of various form of governance in the Indian Constitution.
7 Module IV Major World Constitutions 25% Weightage
History & salient features of US Constitution; unwritten British constitutional
conventions; rise and fall of Marxism; disintegration of Soviet Union & constitutional systems of socialist countries; constitutional patterns in the subcontinent; mixture of various constitutional patterns in the Indian Constitution.
10 Pedagogy for Course Delivery:
The course will be delivered through Lecture, using examples and case laws.
11 Assessment/ Examination Scheme:
Theory L/T (%) Lab/Practical/Studio (%) End Term Examination
50% NA 50% Theory Assessment (L&T): Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term Examination Components (Drop down) Class Seminar Home Attendance Test assignment
Course Learning Understand the Principles, Analyse the various systems Focus on the application of Evaluate the system of Outcomes objects and forms of of Governance – Unitary, system of governance to various Constitutional Governance and Governance federal, Presidential & constitutions. various legal systems. Parliamentary.
Assessment type/PSDA
Seminar Home Assignment Class Test
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