Course Name – Indian Legal System

Course Code – BBALLB-106

Lecture No – 3

Topic – Concept of Law

Model Institute of
Engineering & Technology
COURSE OUTCOMES

Mapping with Program

Course
Description Outcomes and Program
Outcomes
Specific Outcomes

Interpret the fundamentals of law and participate

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in debates around the nature of law.

Analyse the categorization of various types of law

CO2 and be able to distinguish between the major kinds of 1,
law.

Analyse and illustrate the various sources of law

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and their relationship inter se.

Demonstrate and apply the understanding of basic

CO4 principles of Indian legal system to real life legal 1,
problems.

Describe the structure of legal institutions and the

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hierarchy of courts in India.
Course Outcome 1 - Delivery Plan

Course Outcomes Topics Blooms Taxonomy

Interpret the fundamentals of law and

CO1 participate in debates around the nature of Understanding
law.
Lesson Outcomes

 Students will be able to interpret the fundamentals of law and participate in debates around the nature of
law.
Assessment and Evaluation Plan

 Assessment Tools

 Quiz

 Evaluation
CONCEPT OF LAW

 Conception and notion imply a general idea of what should be.

 Concept suggests an idea typical of a class.

 The concept of law signifies what law is.

 Very difficult to answer what law is?

 Own view points – a thinker, a philosopher, a religious minded person, an artist, an atheist, a lawyer, a
judge and a doctor will give different viewpoints as per their own perception and thinking.

 Law is not a physical object that can be defined so easily.

 Definition may be either in terms of a judicial process, in terms of purpose, or in terms of a social facet.
CONCEPT OF LAW

 The existence of law presupposes a community.

 Acceptance of a set of values dealing with the fundamental issues on which the existence of the society
depends.

 Agreement – Social Contract (Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), John Locke (1632–1704) and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau (1712–78).
CONCEPT OF LAW
CONCEPT OF LAW

 Community after reaching a stage of development sets up a legal order which determines the methods
by which law is to be created, declared and enforced.

 LAW IS NEVER IDEAL JUSTICE, BUT HUMAN JUSTICE DEFINED BY THOSE WHO CONTROL
THE MACHINE.