Year: III Year

Semester: VI

1. Name of the Faculty: Aditi Bharti

2. Code : CLCC 2004
3. Course : Jurisprudence L: 4
4. Program : B.A LLB EL T: 0
5. Target : 50% P: 0
C: 4
COURSE PLAN
Target 50% (marks)
Level-1 40% (population)
Level-2 50% (population)
Level-3 60% (population)

1. Method of Evaluation

UG PG
Quizzes/Tests, Assignments (30%) Quizzes/Tests, Assignments, seminar (50%)
Mid Examination (20%) End semester (50%)
End examination (50%)

2. Passing Criteria

Scale PG
Out of 10 point scale SGPA – “6.00” in each semester
CGPA – “6.00”
Min. Individual Course Grade  –  “C”
Course Grade  Point –  “4.0”
UG
SGPA – “5.0” in each semester
CGPA – “5.0”
Min. Individual Course Grade  –  “C”
Course Grade  Point –  “4.0”

*for PG, passing marks are 40/100 in a paper

*for UG, passing marks are 35/100 in a paper

3. Pre-requisites: Basic understanding of law

4. Course Objectives:
The objectives of this course are as under:
1. To comprehend the historical evolution of legal thought
2. To analyze and criticise the various, often conflicting, schools of legal thought.
3. Study the many inter-and cross linkages that law has with its frontier and other disciplines
4. To appreciate the diverse origins and various conceptualizations of law and the ideologies by the
legal scholars in defining the various schools and concepts of jurisprudence.

5. Pedagogy

Interactive approach will be followed. Students are supposed to come prepared for the topics
for discussion in the class.

Work in small groups for Group Projects and personalized teaching (Student counseling,
tutoring, and assignments, exercises)

6. References:
Text Books Web resources Journals Reference books
Mahajan, V.D , Fuller, Lon L. “The Case of Naffine, Ngaire, Assimilating
the Speluncean Explorers.” Feminist Jurisprudence , Law H.L.A. Hart,
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“Jurisprudence Harvard Law Review, vol. in Context: A Socio-Legal (1994), The
62, no. 4, 1949, pp. 616– Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 1 Concept of Law.
“Jurisprudence”, 645. JSTOR, (1993), pp. 78-94 Hans Kelsen,
Edgar www.jstor.org/stable/133602 Scales, Ann C., The (2009), General
Bodenheimer, 5. Accessed 8 Jan. 2020. Emergence of Feminist
Theory of Law and
Universal Law Jurisprudence: An Essay, Yale
Law Journal, Vol. 95, Issue 7
the State.
Publising Scales, Ann C. (1981)
(June 1986), pp. 1373-1404 Joseph Raz, (2009),
Company, Revised "Towards a Feminist
Edition MacKinnon, Catherine A. , The Authority of
Jurisprudence," Indiana
Introduction , Capital Law Essays on
Law Journal: Vol. 56 : Iss.
University Law Review, Vol. Law and Morality.
“Salmond on 3 , Article 1.
Jurisprudence”, P J 10, pp. [ix]-[xvi] Jeremy Bentham,
Available at:
Fitzgerald, MacKinnon, Catherine A., (1876), An
http://www.repository.law.in Trafficking, Prostitution, and
Universal Law diana.edu/ilj/vol56/iss3/1 Introduction to the
Publishing Inequality, Harvard Civil Principles of
Company, 12th Rights Civil Liberties Law Morals and
Fowler V. Harper, Book Review, Vol. 46, Issue 2
Edition Review: The Revival of Legislation.
(Summer 2011), pp. 271-310
Natural Law Concepts, The
Revival of Natural Law
Concepts, 29 Michigan Law
Review 964 (1931),
https://digitalcommons.law.y
ale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=4515&context=fss_p
apers

GUIDELINES TO STUDY THE SUBJECT

Instructions to Students:

1. Go through the 'Syllabus' in the Black Board section of the web-site(https://learn.upes.ac.in) in

order to find out the Reading List.
2. Get your schedule and try to pace your studies as close to the timeline as possible.
3. Get your on-line lecture notes (Content, videos) at Lecture Notes section.  These are our lecture
notes. Make sure you use them during this course.
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4. Check your blackboard regularly
5. Go through study material
6. Check mails and announcements on blackboard
7. Keep updated with the posts, assignments and examinations which shall be conducted on the
blackboard
8. Be regular, so that you do not suffer in any way
9. Cell Phones and other Electronic Communication Devices: Cell phones and other electronic
communication devices (such as Blackberries/Laptops) are not permitted in classes during Tests or
the Mid/Final Examination. Such devices MUST be turned off in the class room.
10. E-Mail and online learning tool: Each student in the class should have an e-mail id and a pass
word to access the LMS system regularly. Regularly, important information – Date of conducting
class tests, guest lectures, via online learning tool. The best way to arrange meetings with us or ask
specific questions is by email and prior appointment. All the assignments preferably should be
uploaded on online learning tool. Various research papers/reference material will be
mailed/uploaded on online learning platform time to time.
11. Attendance: Students are required to have minimum attendance of 75% in each subject. Students
with less than said percentage shall NOT be allowed to appear in the end semester examination.

This much should be enough to get you organized and on your way to having a great semester! If you need
us for anything, send your feedback through e-mail to your concerned faculty. Please use an appropriate
subject line to indicate your message details.

There will no doubt be many more activities in the coming weeks. So, to keep up to date with all the latest
developments, please keep visiting this website regularly.
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RELATED OUTCOMES
1. The expected outcomes of the Program are:

PO1 Students will demonstrate conceptual knowledge in core areas of law

PO2 Students will effectively apply their learnings to practical legal issues
PO3 Students will be able to exhibit effective law professional skills, employing oral
and written communication, legal research, analysis, rationalisation and critical-
thinking
PO4 Students will demonstrate ability to evolve alternative solutions from dynamic
socio-economic and techno-legal perspectives
PO5 Students will demonstrate desirable qualities to be employable in the relevant market

PO6 Students will show sensitivity towards ethical, moral and social issues arising in their
professional career

PO7 Students will exhibit commitment, teambuilding, networking, leadership and lifelong
learning skills to excel in legal world

2. The expected outcomes of the Specific Program are: (upto3)

PSO1 Students will be able to demonstrate conceptual knowledge in core areas of social
sciences
PSO2 Students will be able to demonstrate integrated knowledge of legal principles and
social science

PSO3 Students will be able to exhibit skills in practice and procedures of Energy Law.

3. The expected outcomes of the Course are: (minimum 3 and maximum 6)

CO 1 The students will be able to appreciate and explain the jurisprudential concepts.
CO 2 The students will be able to identify, explain, distinguish the diverse origins and
various conceptualizations of law and develop a keen sense of objectivity while
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dealing with various laws and will be able to relate it with administration of
justice.
The students will be able to analyze various Legal Theory, and to identify how these relate
CO 3 to each other in the broader range of thought.

The students will be able to apply the Jurisprudential concepts in dealing with the
CO 4
questions of law and while evaluating the constitutional validity of impugned laws.

4. Co-Relationship Matrix
Indicate the relationships by1- Slight (low) 2- Moderate (Medium) 3-Substantial (high)

Program
Outcome
s
PO PO PO PO PSO
PO1 PO4 PO7 PSO1 PSO3
2 3 5 6 2
Course
Outcome
s
CO 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 3 1

CO 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 3

CO3 1 3 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2

CO4 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 3

Average 1.75 2 1.75 2.25 2 1.75 2 2.25 2.25 2.25

5. Course outcomes assessment plan:

components

Course Assignment Test/Quiz Mid Semester End Semester Any other

Outcomes

CO 1 √ √ √ √
CO 2 √ √ √ √ √
CO 3 √ √ √ √ √
CO4 √ √ √ √

BROAD PLAN OF COURSE COVERAGE

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C: 4
Course Activities:

Planned
S. No. Description No. of Remarks
From To
Sessions
Meaning and importance
of Jurisprudence
 Nature, Scope and
Definition of
Jurisprudence.
1.  Importance of 1 4 4
Jurisprudence and
need for study of
Jurisprudence.

 The purpose of legal

theory
2. Schools of Jurisprudence 5 12 8
and Theories of Law

 Early Greek Legal

Theory and Natural
Law – Law as dictate
of reason

 German
Transcendental
Idealism

 Historical and
Evolutionary
Theories

 Analytical positivism
- Law as command of
a sovereign, Pure
Theory of Law and
Law as a System of
Rules, Utilitarianism

 Sociological School:
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Roscoe Pound,
Ihering, Duguit

 American Realists –
Oliver Holmes,
Jerome Frank,
Scandinavian
Realists – Vilhelm
Lundstedt, Alf Ross.
Realism – Law as
practice of courts

 Revival of Natural
Law

Nature and Sources of Law

 Authority of Law

 Function and Purpose

of Law

 Law & Fact

 Territorial Nature of
law
3. 13 18 6
 International Law

 Custom

 Legislation

 Judicial Precedent,
Juristic Writing as
sources of Law.
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C: 4
Legal Rights
 Wrongs

 Duties

 Rights
4. 19 23 5
 The characteristic of
a legal Right

 Wider sense of legal

rights
Kind of legal rights

Persons

 Nature of personality

 Legal status of
various categories of
beings
24 28 4
5.
 Double personality

 Legal persons

 Corporations

6. Titles, Property, Possession 29 35 7

and ownership

 Titles

 Meaning of property

 Movable and
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immovable property

 Rights in re propria
in immaterial things

 Ownership

 Subject matter of
ownership

 Possession

 Possession in fact
and in law

 Possession and
Ownership

Liability and Obligations

 The nature and kinds

of liability

 Theory of remedial
liability

 Theory of penal
7. liability 36 41 6

 Duty of care

 Nature of obligations

 Sources of
obligations

8. Administration of Justice 42 48 7

 Necessity of the
Administration of
Justice
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 Civil and criminal
justice

 The purpose of
criminal justice

 Civil justice

 Secondary functions
of Courts of Law

 Concept of Critical
Legal Studies.

 Concept of Feminist
Jurisprudence

Sessions: Total No. of Instructional periods available for the course

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12. Code : CLCC 2004
13. Course : Jurisprudence L: 4
14. Program : B.A LLB EL T: 0
15. Target : 50% P: 0
C: 4
SESSION PLAN
UNIT-I

Lecture No. Topics to be Covered CO Mapped

  Introduction

 Nature, Scope and Definition of Jurisprudence.

1-2  CO1
  Importance of Jurisprudence

 Need for study of Jurisprudence.

 The purpose of legal theory

  3-4  CO3

SESSION PLAN
UNIT-II
CO
Lectu Mapp
re No. Topics to be Covered ed
Module 2: Schools of Jurisprudence and Theories of Law

 Early Greek Legal Theory and Natural Law – Social Contract and St.
Thomas Aquinas
 5  CO1
 Law as dictate of reason

 Purposive interpretation of law – Lon Fuller

 6  CO2
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 Theory and Natural Law – Finnis

   
 German Transcendental Idealism

 Kant and Hegel

 7  CO2
 Historical and Evolutionary Theories

 Savigny and Maine

 8  CO2
 Analytical positivism - Law as command of a sovereign,

 Pure Theory of Law and Law as a System of Rules,

 HLA Hart and Neo Positivism

 Hart Fuller Debate

 Sociological School:

 Utilitarianism

 Roscoe Pound
 9-10  CO2
 American Realists

 Oliver Holmes,

 Jerome Frank,

 Dworkin

 Scandinavian Realists – Vilhelm Lundstedt, Alf Ross.

 Revival of Natural Law

11-12 CO2
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C: 4
SESSION PLAN
UNIT-III

Lecture No. Topics to be Covered CO Mapped

Module 3: Nature and Sources of Law

 Authority of Law

 Function and Purpose of Law

 13  CO3
 Law & Fact

 Territorial Nature of law

 International Law
 14-15  CO3
 Custom

 Legislation

 Judicial Precedent, Juristic Writing

 16-18  CO1

SESSION PLAN
UNIT-IV
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C: 4

Lecture No. Topics to be Covered CO Mapped

Module 4: Legal Rights

 Wrongs

 Duties

 Rights
 19-20  CO1
 The characteristic of a legal Right

 Wider sense of legal rights

 21-22  CO3
 Kind of legal rights

 23  CO3
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SESSION PLAN
UNIT-V

Lecture No. Topics to be Covered CO Mapped

Module 5: Persons

 Nature of personality

 Legal status of various categories of beings

 24-26  CO1
 Double personality

 Legal persons
Corporations
 27-28  CO1

SESSION PLAN
UNIT-VI

Lecture No. Topics to be Covered CO Mapped

Module 6: Titles, Property, Possession And Ownership

 Titles

 Meaning of property

 Movable and immovable property

 Rights in re propria in immaterial things

 29-31  CO2
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 Ownership

 Subject matter of ownership

 Possession

 Possession in fact and in law

 Possession and Ownership

 32-35  CO2

SESSION PLAN
UNIT-VII

Lecture No. Topics to be Covered CO Mapped

Module 7: Liability And Obligations

 The nature and kinds of liability

 Theory of remedial liability

 36-37  CO2
 Theory of penal liability

 Duty of care
 38-39  CO3
 Nature of obligations

 Sources of obligations
40-41 CO2

SESSION PLAN
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15. Target : 50% P: 0
C: 4
UNIT-VIII

Lecture No. Topics to be Covered CO Mapped

Module 8: Administration Of Justice

 Necessity of the Administration of Justice

 Civil and criminal justice

 42-44  CO3
 The purpose of criminal justice

 Civil justice
 45-46  CO4
 Secondary functions of Courts of Law

47 CO4
 Concept of Feminist Jurisprudence

48 CO4