Jurisprudence

There is no universal or uniform definition of Jurisprudence since people have different ideologies and notions throughout the world. It is a very vast subject. When an author talks about political conditions of his society, it reflects that condition of law prevailing at that time in that particular society. It is believed that the Romans were the first who started to study what is law.

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Unit 1: Introduction and Sources of Law

• Jurisprudence: Meaning, Importance and Indian Perspective
• Meaning, Nature And Scope of Jurisprudence
• Nature and definition of law
• The relation between Law and Morality
• The relation between Law and Justice
• Sources of law
• Relationship: Jurisprudence and other sciences
• Different approaches to the study of Jurisprudence
• Recent Trends in Indian Jurisprudence

Unit 2: Schools of Jurisprudence

• Analytical positivism: Bentham and Austin’s view, Criticism of Austin’s theory of positivism
• Natural law School
• Historical school
• Sociological School
• Kelson’s Pure Theory of Law, H.L.A. Hart’s Theory
• Legal Realism: American Realism and the Scandinavian Realists

Unit 3: Ownership, Possession and Property

• Possession: Definition, concept and importance
• Ownership: Definition, concept, kinds of ownership
• The relation between ownership and possession,
• Meaning and Kinds of Property

Unit 4: Concept of Rights and Duties

• Rights, Duties and Wrongs: Overview
• Hohfield’s theory of Jural Relations

Unit 5: Constitutionalism

• Evolution of liberal theories of justice
• Role of State in maintaining freedom
• Marxism and the element of ideology in law
• Role of culture in constitutionalism
• Notion of otherness and the politics of difference

 

1. 1. Schools of Jurisprudence
   2. Renaissance Period of Natural Law
   3. Analytical School
   4. Historical School
   5. Sociological School
   6. Nature, Purpose and Functions of Law
   7. Kinds of Law
   8. Theories Of Juristic Personality
   9. Concept Of State And Sovereignty
   10. Concept Of Legal Rights
   11. Rights and Duties in Jurisprudence
   12. Concept of Justice
   13. Administration Of Justice
   14. Precedent
   15. Obiter Dicta
   16. Ratio Decidendi
   17. Legislation and its Types
   18. Laws of Property Under Jurisprudence
   19. Possession
   20. Ownership

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