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This document outlines the courses and modules for the first semester of an LL.M program. The courses include Research Method and Legal Writing, Comparative Law/Systems of Governance, Law and Justice in a Globalization World, Criminology and Criminal Justice Administration, and Victimology. Each course is broken down into modules that cover topics such as research design, comparative criminal law across legal systems, challenges to global justice, and issues of sexual victimization. The document provides detailed descriptions of the topics, concepts, and issues that will be addressed within each module.

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Cri LLM

This document outlines the courses and modules for the first semester of an LL.M program. The courses include Research Method and Legal Writing, Comparative Law/Systems of Governance, Law and Justice in a Globalization World, Criminology and Criminal Justice Administration, and Victimology. Each course is broken down into modules that cover topics such as research design, comparative criminal law across legal systems, challenges to global justice, and issues of sexual victimization. The document provides detailed descriptions of the topics, concepts, and issues that will be addressed within each module.

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SEMESTER I

SUBJECT
1. Research Method and Legal Writing.
2. Comparative Law/Systems of Governance.
3. Law and Justice in a Globalization World.
4. Criminology and Criminal Justice Administration.
5. Victimolgy.

RESEARCH METHOD AND LEGAL WRITING (TOPIC)-LL.M 1101


MODULE I: INTRODUCTION
 The Science of research and scientific methodology.
 Interrelation between speculation, fact and theory building some fallacies of scientific
methodology with reference to socio legal research
 Inter-disciplinary research and legal research models.
 Arm chair research vis-à-vis empirical research.
 Legal research-common laws and civil law legal systems

MODULE II: RESEARCH DESIGN


 Workable Hypothesis-formulation and evaluations.
 Major steps in research design.

MODULE III: RESEARCH TECHNIQUES


 Sampling
 Survey and Case Study Method
 Scaling and Content Analysis

MODULE IV: RESEARCH TOOLS AND DATA PROCESSING


 Observation
 Interview and Schedule
 Questionnaire
 Socio-Metrics and Jurimetrics
 Data Processing (deductions and Inductions) analysis and interpretation of data

MODULE V: LEGAL WRITING


 Report/article writing in legal research
 Use of definition, maxims concepts, principles, doctrines in legal research
 Citation methodology
 Book review and case comments.
COMPARATIVE LAW/SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE LL.M 1102
MODULE I: INTRODUCTION
 Meaning and definition of Public Law.
 Concept of Public Law.
 Globalization of Comparative Public Law.

MODULE II: TOOLS OF COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW


 Constitutional Law-Common Law Civil Law.
 Legislative Mechanism-Common Law, Civil Law.
 Typology of Federalism-USA, India.

MODULE III: PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION-US, INDIA


 Locus Standi.
 Judicial Activism.
 Judicial Accountability.

MODULE IV: COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW-COMMON LAW, CIVIL LAW


 Domestic Violations-International, National.
 Provisions relating to Rape.
 Plea Bargaining-USA, India.
 White Collar Crimes.
 Juvenile Justics.

MODULE V: OMBUDSMAN
 Ombudsman in Scandinavian countries.
 International Scenario-Common Law and Civil Law.
 Indian Scenario.
 Lokpal (Ombudsman).
 Lokayukta.
LAW AND JUSTICE IN A GLOBALIZATION WORLD LL.M 1103
MODULE I: INTRODUCTION
 Meaning and Significance of Globalization.
 Concept of Global Justice
 Global Justice and Right to Development.
MODULE II: THEORETICAL PREPOSITION OF GLOBAL JUSTICE
 Realism
 Particularism
 Nationalism
 Cosmopolitanism

MODULE III: HISTORICAL AND CENTRAL CHALLENGES TO GLOBAL JUSTISE.


 Global Poverty-Role of International Mechanism.
 Armed Conflict.
 Nationalist practices.
 Crimes against Humanity.
 Environment and Health.
 Oppressive Policies-Threat of Terrorism Global Politics.

MODULE IV: ROLE AND REFORMATION OF GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS


 States Sovereignty and Transnational Law
 Economic and Trade Institutions-MNC’s
 Structural reforms and United Nations Security Council
 International Judicial Institutions.

MODULE V: MODELS TO ACHIEVE GLOBAL JUSTICE


 Social Contract and Social Justice.
 Sarvodaya Model of Justice
 Multi Culturalism and Cosmopolitanism
 Significance of Human Rights Education
 Global Justice and Global Rule of Law.
CRIMONOLOGY AND CRIMINAL ADMINISTRATION LL.M 1106

MODULE I: THE CONCEPT OF CRIMONOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE


ADMINISTRATION
 Notion of deviance and Crime
 Constituent Elements of Crime
 Nature and Scope of Criminology
 Methods of Criminological Studies.

MODULE II: SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY


 Classical
 Biological
 Cartographic
 Sociological
 Socialist

MODULE III: A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF MODERN TRENDS IN CRIMINOLOGY.


 Phenomenology
 Postmodernism
 Crime and Feminism

MODULE IV: PUNISHMENT: CONCEPT AND THEORIES


 Death Sentence
 Treatment of Offenders: Prison, Probation and Parole

MODULE V: INDIVIDUALISTIC APPROACHES TO CRIME-BIO -


ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES
 Lombroso
 Modem Crimino-Biological School
 Frustration-Aggression Theories.
VICTIMOLOGY LL.M 1107

MODULE I: THE CONCEPT OF VICTIMOLOGY


 Constituent Element of Crime and Victimolgy
 Nature and Scope of Victimolgy
 Methods of Victimolgy Studies

MODULE II: JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS


 Ideology and the behavior of perpetrators and victims of violence Noach

MODULE III:
 Malimath Committee and Crime Victims
 Justice J.S. Verma Committee Report
 Criminal Law Amendment Act

MODULE IV: ISSUES OF SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION


 Women Victims of Sexual violence and the Civil legal System
 Victims of Sexual harassment in modern work places in India
 Blaming victims and bystanders in the context of rape.

MODULE V: SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS


 The relationship between childhood victimization, durg abuse
 PTSD and adult delinquency in a prison population
 Resurrecting the forgotten voices of the Indian criminal justice system
1. Criminal Victimization and social networks in India.

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