Description
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This course in Jurisprudence is designed primarily, to induct students into a realm of questions concerning nature of law. Accordingly, the first part of the course sheds vivid light on various schools of law explaining, what is law, what are the purposes of law? What is the relationship between law and justice? This course aims to educate students on various legal concepts, such as, Rights, Persons, Property, Possession, Ownership, Title and Obligation and attempts to shape up a general and more comprehensive picture of each concept as a whole. This course is proposed predominantly on English model but native Indian orientation is given wherever possible with help of case laws. The course aims at developing an analytical approach to understand the nature of law and development of legal system. The concerns of jurisprudence are an inescapable feature of the law and legal system. Overall, the course aims to identify and elucidate several major principles of legal theory.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Know various theories of Law with their merits, demerits and their application in legal system.
- Identify and acquaint themselves with the various formal and material sources of law.
- Understand the function and purpose of law.
- Understand thoroughly the concept of right, its elements, its kinds including rights in the wider sense i.e., the Hofliedian analysis on rights.
- Know the concepts of Custody, Possession, Ownership, Title and the distinction between and among them.
- Grasp and understand the different Legal Concepts: Legal Personality, Property, Obligations.
- Fathom the jurisprudential aspect of legal concepts, legal statutes, legal interpretations.
