B.A.LL.B. (Hons.

) First Semester 2023-2024

Legal Method Project Work
Group I and II

Note: Queries/clarification, if any, pertaining to the topic of the project will be resolved on September
20 from 02:30 pm to 04:00 pm in the chamber of the subject teacher. No proposal for any change in
topic will be entertained after this date.

Topic Roll No.

Critical review of the research paper ‘Feminist Legal 101

Methods’ by Catharine T. Bartlett, Harvard Law
Review, Vol. 103, No. 4, 1990

Critical review of the research paper ‘Judging 102

Constitutional Conventions’ by Farrah Ahmed, Richard
Albert, 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law
787 (2019)

Critical review of the research paper, ‘Legal 103

Originality’ by Mathias Siens, Oxford Journal of Legal
Studies 102 28/ 147-164

Access to Justice in Colonial India 156

Normative function of Law 105

Custom as a Source of Law 106

Critical review of the research paper “Courting Nature: 107

Advances in Indian Jurisprudence.” In: “Can Nature
Have Rights? Legal and Political Insights,” edited by
Anna Leah Tabios Hillebrecht and María Valeria
Berros, RCC Perspectives: Transformations in
Environment and Society 2017, no. 6, 31–36.
Returning to a Duty-Based Society from a Rights- 108
Based Society’

Critical review of the research paper ‘The Dharma of 109

Ethics, the Ethics of Dharma: Quizzing the Ideals of
Hinduism’, by Arti Dhand, Journal of Religious Ethics
Vol. 30, No. 3, 2002

Concept of Justice by Amartya Sen 158

Contemporary Significance of Ancient Indian Penology 111 AND 157

The Concept of Duty in Constitution of India 112

Decolonization of Law 113

Decolonization of Legal Education 159

Why should Duties prevail over Rights 160

Law and Social Order 162

Colonial Law and Utilitarianism 117

 Form and Content of Colonial Law 118

Legislation as a Source of Law 164

Legilsative Comment on ‘The Protection of Children 120

From Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act, 2019’

What is Wrong with Colonial Laws? 166

Decolonization and Justice 167

Decolonizing Rule of Law 170

Decolonialization of Law through Retroactive Justice 124

Same Sex Marriage from Law and Morality Perspective 172

Decolonization of Legal Knowledge 126

Judicial Systems in Ancient India 173

Concept of Justice of John Rawls 128

Concept of Justice by Michael J. Sandel 129

Legislative Comment on Digital Personal Data 130

Protection Bill
Legislative Comment on Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 174

Social Action Lawyering 132

Book Review of ‘Law a Very Short Introduction’ by 175

Raymond Wacks

Book Review of ‘Philosophy of Law’ by Raymond 134

Wacks

Case Comment on ‘Government of Kerala & Anr. V. 135

Joseph and Others’, Civil Appeal 3142 Of 2010

Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 621; 2023 INSC 693

Case Comment on ‘Sree Sankaracharya University of 176

Sanskrit Vs. Dr. Manu’

Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 468

Legislative Comment on The Biological Diversity 177

(Amendment) Act, 2023

Legislative Comment on The Forest (Conservation) 138

Amendment Act, 2023

Case Comment on Secunderabad Club v CIT 139

Citation: 2023 INSC 736

Ratio Decidendi of ‘Central Council for Research in 178

Ayurvedic Sciences v. Bikartan Das’ Citation: 2023
LiveLaw (SC) 692’

Ratio of ‘X vs Principal Secretary, Health and Family 141

Welfare Department, Govt of NCT Of Delhi, C.A
5802/2022)’

Legislative Comment on ‘The Bharatiya Nyaya 179

Sanhita, 2023’ Bill

Book Review of Learning the Law by Glanville 185

Williams
 Hart-Fuller Debate on Morality and Law 180

Legislative Comment on ‘The Competition 181

(Amendment) Act, 2023’
Legislative Comment on ‘The Criminal Procedure 146
(Identification) Act, 2022’
Functions of Law 147

Economic Perspective of Law 148

Social Perspective of Law 149

Doctrine of Stare Decisis 182

Ratio of ‘Jarnail Singh v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta’ 151

(2022) 10 SCC 595
Obiter Dicta of ‘Trimurthi Fragrances (P) Ltd versus 152
Govt of NCT of Delhi’
Citation : 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 778
Right to Legal Aid 183

Changing Contours of Public Interest Litigation in 154

India
Legal Positivism 155

Ratio of ‘Shyara Bano v. UoI’ 184

Golden Rule of Interpretation 187

Mischief Rule of Interpretation 191

Madhav Menon’s Idea of Clinical Legal Education 193

Distinction between the normative and formal function 194

of law
Kelson and the Indian Legal System 195

Hart and the Indian Legal System 196

Law as an Instrument of Social Change 197

Hobbes and the Legitimacy of Law 198

Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice 199