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School of Law
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Course Title JURISPRUDENCE Course Type THEORY
Course Code J1UA208T Class LL.B
II SEM.
Credit Credit Total Number of Assessment in
Activity
s Hours Classes per Weightage
Semester
Lecture 4 60
Tutorial 1 15
Instruction
Self-study
Practical
Tutorial
delivery Practical
Theory
SEE
CIE
Self- 0
study
Total 5 75
4 1 0 0 50% 50%
Course Lead Dr. Mudassir Course Dr. Mudassir Nazir
Nazir Coordinator
Names Theory Practical
Course
Dr. Mudassir Nazir
Instructors
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COURSE OVERVIEW
Jurisprudence is simply the “knowledge or wisdom of law”. However, reaching this wisdom
requires some tools of philosophical thoughts developed by great philosophers. All those
philosophers from the Roman era to the modern era reflects the richness of law. Jurisprudence
opens that door of harnessed knowledge for the students to get enriched in each law. Any law
remains a closed entity until it’s been opened with the most fitting jurisprudential key. This course
will guide the students to view the issues and reasons related to any law. The course will be
delivered through participating lectures and expect the students to stand with any legal question,
however, with a strong reasoning.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
This course intends to impart the knowledge to understand the kind of questions
grappled by legal philosophers. This course would also narrate the position taken by the
philosophers on those questions. Therefore, the course aims to inculcate philosophical
base for students to understand and perceive law.
The students will understand the comparison between the schools under
jurisprudence.
The students will learn the concept of law as propounded by respective jurists
The students will be able to conceptualize the concept of rights and duties
.The student will be learning the nature and kinds of laws
PREREQUISITE COURSE
PREREQUISITE COURSE REQUIRED NO
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PROGRAM OUTCOMES (POs):
After the completion of the course, the student will be able to:
PO No. Description of the Program Outcome
Developing Knowledge of Law
PO 1 To learn, understand and apply a broad cross section of constitutional, statutory,
regulatory and procedural laws to demonstrate the competency in the required
courses.
Comprehensive Analysis, Interpretation and Critique Thinking
PO 2 To identify the key facts, issues, reasoning and application of principles of
interpretation that develop judicial decisions and to independently critique them.
Proficiency in Law Research and Investigation of Facts
PO 3 To find governing law and secondary sources and its application to evaluate facts
and application of law.
Formulation of Solution with Practical Legal Approach
PO 4 To propose solutions to problems taking into account applicable law, client
interest, changed circumstances, alternative options and practical constraints.
Effective Communication and Writing
PO 5 To speak and write effectively in a manner appropriate to the
audience/stakeholders and evolve on global professional interactions.
Role of Lawyers in Society
PO 6 To appreciate the various roles lawyers play in society and recognize the impact of
law on people and institutions.
Environment and Sustainability
PO 7 Understand the impact of the professional legal solutions in societal and
environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for
sustainable development.
Professional Ethics
PO 8 To identify and resolve ethical issue consistent with the profession’s ethical
standard to commit towards professional ethics.
Life- Long Learning
PO 9 Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in
independent and lifelong learning in the broadest context of legal change.
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PSO1 To understand the basic concepts of Law and apply them ethically in all spheres of governance,
regulation and dispute resolution by developing skills of advocacy, argumentation, drafting and
legal reasoning.
PSO2 To gain knowledge of the interface between law and society and effectively apply the
understanding and skills acquired through clinical and theoretical courses.
COURSE OUTCOMES (COs)
After the completion of the course, the student will be able to:
CO No. Description of the Course Outcome
Understand the philosophical basis of laws through various philosophical
1
thoughts.
2 Apply the theories to legal questions to arrive at a reasonable answer.
3 Analyse the research issues outlined in the jurisprudential texts and debates
Evaluate the legal concepts of law and justice and the jurisprudence of
4
property, liability and ownership.
TAXONOMY LEVEL OF THE COURSE OUTCOMES
Bloom's taxonomy is a set of hierarchical models used for the classification of educational
learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. The learning domains are
cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.
COMPREHENSIVE
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Remember Understand Apply Analyse Evaluate Create
CO No.
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COURSE ARTICULATION MATRIX
PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PSO PSO
COs/ POs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2
1 2 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3
2 3 _ 3 _ 3 2 2 1 _ _ 3
2
3 _ 3 _ 3 _ 2 _ _ _ 3
4 _ _ 3 _ 3 _ _ _ 2 _ 3
Note: 1-Low, 2-Medium, 3-High
COURSE ASSESSMENT
Assessment pattern (in General) for theory course
CIE Weightage End Term
Exam (ETE)
Type of
Weightage
Course
IA 1 IA 2 Mid Term
Exam
Theory (T) 25 25 50 50
Final Weightage 25 25 50 50
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Total 50 100 100
COURSE CONTENT
(THEORY)
CONTENT (Syllabus)
Nature and Scope- Schools of Law - Command theory and their Predecessors-
Natural Law from the Roman time to the Modern time- Positivism – Bentham- Kelson-
Hart
Historical Thought- Sociological thought- Legal Realism- Jurimetrics
Legal Pluralism- Post modernism- Theories of Justice- Feminist Jurisprudence – Law
and Justice - Basic Legal Concepts - Duty- Rights- Personality- Possession- Ownership –
The concept of Liability
Theories of Legal Process- Stare decisis- Ratio Decidendi- Inductive and Deductive
Method- Illusory references -
LESSON PLAN FOR COMPREHENSIVE COURSES
Tutorial
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Topic for Delivery Skill
No. Practical petency
Plan
Introduction - Nature and Scope of
1 Lecture
Jurisprudence
Introduction to Schools of Law-
2 Command Theories and their Lecture Understand
Predecessors the Understa
Origin of Natural Law – Greek and philosophical nd
3 Lecture
Roman Period thoughts
4 Natural Law in the Middle Age Lecture
5 Natural Law and French Revolution Tutorial
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Kantian Natural Law and the
6 blending of Eastern and Western Lecture
Thought
Positivism -Bentham’s Analytical
7 Lecture
Positivism
8 Kelson and the Purity of Law Lecture
Hart’s sophisticated Legal
9 Lecture
Positivism: Law as a system of Rules
Historical Thoughts -Savigny and
10 Lecture
Marx
11 Sociological School Lecture
Holmes – Bund – Ehrlich- on
13 Lecture
Sociological Theories
Voluntarism-Schopenhauer,
14 Lecture
Rousseau, Nietzche and Freud
Legal Realism : American and
15 Tutorial
Scandinavian
Jurimetrics- Holmes-Illewellgn-
16 Lecture
Jerome Frank
Critical Legal Studies Movement-
17 Lecture
Roberto Unger
Legal Pluralism- Northrop-
18 Lecture
Posipisil-
Baxi- Saali Moore on Legal
19 Lecture
Pluralism
Revival of Natural Law in the
20 Lecture
present times – Stammer
Post- modernism Law- Fococoult-
21 Lecture
Derrida, Thomas Berry
John Rawls and Dworkin- Theories
22 Lecture
of Justice
Analysis of Basic Legal Concepts- Analyse the Analyse
23 Lecture
Hohfeld’s Typology philosophical
24 Law and Morality Lecture questions
raised by
25 Justice and Law Tutorial
philosophers
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Critical Approach- Critical Legal
26. Lecture
Studies and Feminist Jurisprudence
27 Hart and Sacks on Legal Process Lecture
Legislation and Judicial Activism-
28 Lecture
Stanley Fish
29 Law of Precedents Lecture
Precedents in Civil and Common
30 Tutorial
Legal Systems
Law of Precedent and Theory of
31 Lecture
declaration
32 Law of Precedent in India Lecture
and the stand
33 Liability Lecture
they have
34 Nature of Liability Lecture taken.
35 Criminal Liability Tutorial
36 Liability and Negligence Lecture
37 Rights and Duties – its co-relation Lecture
38 Personality Lecture
39 Property Lecture
40 Possession Tutorial
41 Ownership Lecture
42 Continuing Legal Process Lecture
43 Stare Decisis - Exceptions Lecture
Evaluate
The practice in Indian courts-
and apply the
44 subordinate courts and stare Decisis Lecture Evaluate
theoretical
and
understanding
Ratio decidendi-Wambaugh, Apply
45 Tutorial to Legal
Goodhart and Halsbury’s tests
Concepts
Judicial Reasoning-inductive and
46 deductive approach-Stone’s category Lecture
of illusory references
47 Custom and culture -Fannon. Lecture
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Kantian Natural Law and the
46 blending of Eastern and Western Lecture
Thought
Positivism -Bentham’s Analytical
47 Lecture
Positivism
48 Kelson and the Purity of Law Tutorial
Hart’s sophisticated Legal
49 Lecture
Positivism: Law as a system of Rules
Historical Thoughts -Savigny and
50 Lecture
Marx
51 Sociological School Lecture
Holmes – Bund – Ehrlich- on
52 Lecture
Sociological Theories
Voluntarism-Schopenhauer,
53 Tutorial
Rousseau, Nietzche and Freud
Legal Realism : American and
54 Lecture
Scandinavian
Jurimetrics- Holmes-Illewellgn-
55 Lecture
Jerome Frank
Critical Legal Studies Movement-
56 Lecture
Roberto Unger
Legal Pluralism- Northrop-
57 Lecture
Posipisil-
Baxi- Saali Moore on Legal
59 Lecture
Pluralism
Revival of Natural Law in the
60 Lecture
present times – Stammer
Post- modernism Law- Fococoult-
61 Lecture
Derrida, Thomas Berry
John Rawls and Dworkin- Theories
62 Lecture
of Justice
63 Analysis of Basic Legal Concepts- Lecture Analyse the Analyse
Hohfeld’s Typology philosophical
questions
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raised by
philosophers
and the stand
they have
taken.
Kantian Natural Law and the
64 blending of Eastern and Western Tutorial
Thought
Positivism -Bentham’s Analytical
65 Lecture
Positivism
66 Kelson and the Purity of Law Lecture
Hart’s sophisticated Legal
67 Lecture
Positivism: Law as a system of Rules
Analyse the
Historical Thoughts -Savigny and
68 Lecture philosophical
Marx
questions
69 Sociological School Tutorial raised by
Analyse
Holmes – Bund – Ehrlich- on philosophers
70 Lecture
Sociological Theories and the stand
Voluntarism-Schopenhauer, they have
71 Lecture
Rousseau, Nietzche and Freud taken.
Legal Realism : American and
72 Lecture
Scandinavian
Jurimetrics- Holmes-Illewellgn-
73 Lecture
Jerome Frank
Critical Legal Studies Movement-
74 Tutorial
Roberto Unger
Legal Pluralism- Northrop-
75 Lecture
Posipisil-
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Text Book (One Text Book which covers 80% and more syllabus)
1. Salmond on jurisprudence.12th ed., by P. J. Fitzgerald, Maxwell Publications,
1966.
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2. Poton on Jurisprudence
3. Carleton Kemp Allen, Law in the Making, Clarendon Press, 1975.
Reference Books (Two reference Books, one should be international)
[Link] Pound, An introduction to legal philosophy
2. Julius Stone, Human law and Human Justice
[Link] Stone, Legal system and lawyer’s Reasoning
[Link] Stone, Social Dimensions of Law and Justice
[Link] Cross, Law of Precedents
[Link] Unger, Critical legal studies
Journals/Magazines/Govt. Reports/Gazette/Industry Trends (Two
Numbers)
Webliography (Two electronic documents or websites that relate to the Course)
List of Video
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SWAYAM/NPTEL/MOOCs Certification (One from Each Platform, Max 3 Platforms)
PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING
Exercises in Problem-based Learning (Assignments) (Min 54 Problems*)
Sl.
Problem KL
No.
1 What is law according to HLA Hart KL 4
2 Define Jurisprudence KL 2
3 What is solidarity obligation KL 4
4 How can legal rights be acquired KL 2
5 How do you understand the word PRECEDENT KL 4
6 What is the meaning of corpus possessionis KL 4
Gray has said, in his book, “Nature and Sources of Law” that right is not
interest, but the means whereby interest is secured.
7 KL 3
i) Who has defined right as an interest? State the definition.
ii) Do you agree with Gray? Give reasons
STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING (SELF-LEARNING TOWARDS LIFE-LONG-
LEARNING)
Self-Learning, self-doing, and application of the knowledge acquired through the course
after gaining adequate knowledge.
1- Interpretation of the Jurists regarding the definition of Jurisprudence.
2- Meaning, nature and scope of Jurisprudence.
3- Custom as a source of law.
4- Precedent and the doctrine of stare decisis.
5- Hart's theory of Primary and Secondary Rule.
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6- Roscoe Pound and the Theory of Social Engineering.
7- Possession meaning, kinds and theories.
8- Ownership- Meaning and Kinds.
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