Holder and Holder-in-Due Course Material Alterations and Crossing of Cheque, etc. Dishonour of Negotiable Instruments PSDA (Professional Skill Development Activities) 3 Hrs/Week Drafting of one document about Indemnity/Guarantee/ Agency Preparation of a Partnership Deed Preparation of Pleading for Negotiable Instruments Visits to banks etc. for examination of documents Text Books: Pollock & Mulla, Indian Contract and Specific Relief Act, Lexis Nexis, 2013(14th Edn) Avtar Singh, Law of Partnership, Eastern Book Company, 2012 (4th Edn) Avtar Singh, Law of Contract and Specific Relief, Eastern Book Company, 2013 (11th Edn) S. P. Sengupta, Commentaries on Negotiable Instruments’ Act, Central Law Agency, 2008 (3rd Edn) References: Avtar Singh, Sale of Goods, Eastern Book Company, 2011 (7th Edn) Michael G. Bridge (ed.), Benjamin’s Sale of Goods, Sweet & Maxwell, 2013 (8th Edn) P.S. Atiyah, Sale of Goods, Pearson Education, 2010 (12th Edn) B.M. Prasad and Manish Mohan, Khergamvala on the Negotiable Instrument Act, 2013, Lexis Nexis, 2013 (21st Edn) P. Mulla, The Sale of Goods and Indian Partnership Act, Lexis Nexis, 2012 (10th Edn)
Attempt Abetment Unit-IV: Punishment (Lectures-08) Offence against the State Offence against Public Tranquility Theories of Punishment with special reference to Capital Punishment PSDA (Professional Skill Development Activities) 3 Hrs/Week Examination of Criminal Records in various reports Jail Visit Drafting of a Criminal Complaint Awareness Camp Text Books: Glanville Williams, Text Book of Criminal Law, Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2012 Ratanlal Dhiraj Lal, The Indian Penal Code, Lexis Nexis, Butterworths Wadhwa, Nagpur, 2012 K.D. Gaur, Textbook on Indian Penal Code, Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2012 References: J.W. Cecil Turner, Russel on Crime ,Vol I &2, Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2012 K.I. Vibhuti, PSA Pillai’s Criminal Law, Lexis Nexis, Butterworths Wadhwa, Nagpur, 2012 Glanville Williams, Text Book of Criminal Law, Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2012 Ratanlal Dhiraj Lal, The Indian Penal Code, Lexis Nexis, Butterworths Wadhwa, Nagpur, 2012 K.D. Gaur, Textbook on Indian Penal Code, Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2012 Dr. H.S. Gaur, Penal Law of India, Law Publishers , Allahabad, 2013 John Dawson Mayne, Mayne’s Criminal law of India, Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2013 Bare Act of Indian Penal Code, 1860
Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002: Its Background , Importance, The Debt Recovery Tribunals and Important Case Law Unit-III: Foreign Investment Laws (Lectures-12) Role of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 to Regulate Foreign Trade - Difference from FERA, Administration of Exchange Control, Adjudicatory Powers Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 Joint ventures in India and Foreign Collaborations: Concept of Transnational Corporations and Multinational Corporations – UNCTAD model Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Institutional Investors: Its Regulatory Mechanism in India, Concept of Special Economic Zone(SEZ) Unit-IV: The Competition Law in India (Lectures-12) Evolution of Competition Law in India, Difference from the MRTP Act Anti-Competitive Agreements, Vertical and Horizontal Agreements, Predatory Pricing Abuse of Dominance Combinations and its Regulations Powers and Functions of Competition Commission of India, Appellate Authorities, Competition Advocacy. Brief concept of the Development of Competition Laws in USA and UK PSDA (Professional Skill Development Activities) 3 Hrs/Week CCI’s Case Following Analysis of FDI Policy and Changes Visit to Competition Commission Appreciation of Proceedings/Activities of Stock Exchange Text Books: Richard Whish & David Bailey, Competition Law , Oxford University Press, 2012 (7th Edn) Avtar Singh, Competition Law, Eastern Book Company, 2012 References: V.A. Avdhani, Investment and Securities Market in India, Himalaya Publishing House, 2011 (9th Edn) Vinod Dhall, Competition Law Today, Oxford University Press, 2007 Taxmann’s Competition Act, 2002
Rights to Strike and Lock-out General Prohibition of strikes and lock-outs Prohibition of Strikes and Lock-outs in Public Utility Services Illegal Strikes and Lock-outs Justification of Strikes and Lock-outs Penalties for Illegal strikes and Lock-outs Wages for Strikes and Lock-outs Lay-off Retrenchment Transfer and Closure: Definition of Lay-off and Retrenchment Compensation Compensation to Workmen in Case of Transfer of Undertaking Closure Closure: Prevention and Regulation Conditions: Precedent for Retrenchment Special Provisions Relating to Lay-off, Retrenchment and Closure in Certain Establishments Procedure for Retrenchment and Re-employment of Retrenched Workmen and Penalty Disciplinary Action and Domestic Enquiry Management’s Prerogative during the Pendency of Proceedings Notice of Change PSDA (Professional Skill Development Activities) 3 Hrs/Week Processing Registration of a Trade Union Preparation of documents for Reference of a Trade Dispute Survey of Trade Dispute Report of Strike/Lay off/ Retrenchment Text Books: Surya Narayan Misra, An Introduction to Labour and Industrial Law, Allahabad Law Agency, 1978 S.C. Srivastava, Industrial Relations and Labour Law, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi References: M.S Siddiqui, Cases and Materials on Labour Law and Labour Relation, Indian Law Institute, 1963 P.L. Malik, Industrial Law, Eastern Book Company, 2013 Dr. Goswami, Labour and Industrial Law, Central Law Agency, 2011 Chaturvedi, Labour and Industrial Law, 2004 ZMS Siddiqi and M.Afzal Wani, Labour Adjudication in India, ILI, 2001.
UNCITRAL Model Law of Ecommerce, 1996 Vakul Sharma, Information Technology Law and Practice, Universal Law Publishers, 2011 (3rd Edn) Harish Chander, Cyber Laws and IT Protection, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 2012 Nandan Kamath, Law Relating to Computers, Internet and Ecommerce, Universal Law Publishing Co., Ltd., 2006 References: Bernard E. Rollin, Science and Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2006 Nandita Adhikari, Law and Medicine, Central Law Publication, 2012 Pavan Duggal, Mobile Law, Universal Law Publishing Co., Ltd., 2012 UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Comprehensive Study of Cyber Crime (Report) Arvind Kumar, Gobind Das, Biodiversity, Biotechnology and International Knowledge: Understanding Intellectual Property Rights, Narosa Book Distributors Pvt. Ltd., 2010 Jaiprakash G. Shevale, Forensic DNA Analysis: Current Practices and Emerging Technologies, CRC Press, 2013 Lori B. Andrews, Maxwell J. Mehlman, Mark A. Rothstein, Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy, Gale Cenage, 2010 (3rd Edn) Evanson C. Kamau, Gerd Winter, Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and the Law: Solutions for Access and Benefit Sharing, Routledge, 2013 Sapna Rathi, Sex Determination Test and Human Rights, Neha Publishers & Distributors, 2011 Anja J. Karnein, A Theory of Unborn Life: From Abortion to Genetic Manipulation, Cambridge University Press, 2000 David Price, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Organ Transportation, Cambridge University Press, 2000 Kerry Lynn Macintosh, Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law, Cambridge University Press, 2005 Katarina Trimmings & Paul Beaumont, International Surrogacy Arrangements, Hart Publications, 2013 Seventh Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 407 Subject: Human Rights Law L4 PSDA 3 C5 Unit-I: Introduction (Lectures-08) Nature Origin and Evolution Development of Human Right Regime Unit-II: International Human Rights Law (Lectures-12) UN Charter UDHR Covenants of 1966 Optional Protocols
References: K.C. Shekhar, & Lekshmi Shekhar, Banking Theory and Practice, Vikas Publishing House, 19th Edition, 2005. M.L. Tannan, Banking Law and Practice in India, Lexis Nexis, 23rd Edition, 2010 J N Jain & R K Jain, Modern Banking and Insurance – Principles and Techniques, Regal Publications, 2008 Jyotsana Sethi & Nishwar Bhatia, Elements of Banking and Insurance, PHI Publishers, 2nd Edition, 2013. Seventh Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 409 (b) Subject: Telecommunication Laws L4 PSDA2 C5 Objectives: The main purpose of the paper is to introduce the conceptual aspect of Telecommunications Law, prevailing legal and regulating framework at national as well as International Level. Unit-1: Introduction (Lectures -10) Historical Evolution of Telecommunications Law. Terrestrial and Satellite broadcasting Internet services Cable television Telecommunication Laws in India: the Indian Telegraph Act 1885 – Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Unit -2: International Bodies (Lectures -10)
Equality Provision Unit – II: Personal Laws and Women (Lectures – 10) Unequal position of women – different personal laws and Directive principles of State Policy Uniform Civil Code towards gender justice Sex inequality in inheritance Guardianship Unit – III: Criminal Laws and Women (Lectures – 10) Adultery Rape Outraging Modesty Domestic Violence Unit – IV: Women Welfare Laws (Lectures– 10) Pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redresal Act, 2013. Domestic Workers Welfare and Social Security Act, 2010 Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1987 Family Courts Act, 1984 PSDA (Professional Skill Development Activities) 3 Hrs/Week Text Books: Mamta Rao, Law Relating to Women and Children, Eastern Book Company, 3rd Edition, 2012. Lalita Dhar Parihar, Women and Law, Eastern Book Company, 2011. References: SC Tripathi and Vibha Arora, Law relating to Women and Children, Central Law Publication, 2006 DK Tiwari & Mahmood Zaidi, Commentaries on Family Courts Act, 1984, Allahabad Law Agency, 1997 BN Chattoraj, Crime against Women: A Search for Peaceful Solution, LNJN-NICFS, 2007 Nomita Agarwal, Women and Law, New Century Publishing House, 2005 Manjula Batra, Women and Law & Law Relating to Children in India, Allahabad Law Agency, 2001
Larry Seigel ,Criminology, 2008, Thomson Wadsworth, Canada Sue Titus Reid ,Crime and Criminology; 2008; Oxford University Presss, Oxford Mark Tunic, Punishment: Theory and Practice; 1992 University of California Press, Berkeley Robert Elias, Victims Still: Politicla Manipulation of Crime Victim, 1993, Sage Publications Inc. R. I. Mawby & S. Walkate, Critical Victimology; 1995, Sage Publications Ltd., London Seventh Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 451 Subject: Comprehensive Viva and C 2 + 03 Summer Internship Assessment Students have to undergo a Compulsory Summer Internship for one month and on that a report has to be submitted by each student separately. The same shall be evaluated by a board of examiners constituted by the Academic Program Committee of the USLLS. In case of Affiliated Colleges, the board of examiners shall be constituted by a committee comprising of all faculty members of respective institutions involved in teaching LL.B Students. The same board shall conduct the comprehensive viva of this semester.
Text Book: N.S. Gopalakrishnan & T.G. Ajitha, Principles of Intellectual Property, Eastern Book Company, 2014 (2nd Edn) B.L. Wadhera, Law Relating to Intellectual Property, Universal Law Publishing, 2014 (5th Edn) S. Narayan, Intellectual Property Law in India, Gogia Law Agency, Hyderabad, 2005 (3rd Edn) References: A. K. Bansal, Law of Trademark In India, Thomson & Reuter, 2014 V.K. Ahuja, Law Relating to Intellectual Property Law, Lexis Nexis, 2013 (2nd Edn) Elizabeth Verky, Law of Patents, Eastern India Company, 2012 (2nd Edn) Jayashree Watal, Intellectual Property Rights in the WTO and Developing Countries, Oxford University Press, 2001 P. Narayanan, Law of Trademarks (The Trademarks Act 1999) and Passing Off, Eastern Law, Calcutta, 2006 W.R. Cornish, Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trademark and Allied Rights, Universal Law Publishing 2001 C.S. Lal, Intellectual Property Handbook: Copyright, Designs, Patents & Trademarks, Law Publishers, Allahabad, 2000 Eighth Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 404 Subject: Labour Law-II L4 PSDA3 C5 Objective: The paper will focus on wages, wage policies, compensation, social security and retirement benefits during the course of employment and working conditions of employees. Unit-I: The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (Lectures-10) a. Concept of Minimum Wage, Fair Wage, Living Wage and Need Based Minimum Wage a. Constitutional Validity of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 b. Procedure for Fixation and Revision of Minimum Wages c. Fixation of Minimum Rates of Wage by Time Rate or by Piece Rate d. Procedure for Hearing and Deciding Claims Unit-II: The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (Lectures-10)
J. Frank, Trade, Inequality and Justice: Towards a Liberal Theory of Just Trade, New York: Transnational 2003 Anil Arora, Jai Narayan Sharma, The International Trade Theories and Current Trend in the Globalised World, Deep & Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2008 A. K. Dixit & V. Norman, Theory of International Trade, Cambridge University Press, 1980 Robert E. Hudec, Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System, London: Gower Press for the Trade Policy Research Centre, 1987 John H. Jackson, World Trade and the Law of GATT, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969 Pratap Ravindra, India at the WTO Dispute Settlement System, New Delhi: Manak Publications, 2004 T. N., Srinivasan, Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System: From the GATT to the Uruguay Round and the Future, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 Philip A., Akakwam, “The Standard of Review in the 1994 Antidumping Code: Circumscribing the Role of GATT Panels in Reviewing National Antidumping Determination”, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996), p 277 Jagdish Bhagwati and Robert E Hudec, Fair Trade and Harmonization: Prerequisites for Free Trade, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996, Vol. 2 (Legal Analysis) Rainer M. Bierwagen,GATT Article VI and the Protectionist Bias in Law, Deventer: Kluwer, 1990 B. S. Chimni, “WTO Dispute Settlement and Sustainable Development”, World Wide Fund for Nature-India, Discussion Paper, May 1999, p 1 Nick Covelli, “Public International Law and Third Party Participation in WTO Panel Proceedings”, JWT, vol. 33, no. 2 (1999), p 125. John Croome, Reshaping the World Trading System: A History of the Uruguay Round, The Hague: Kluwer, 1999 Kenneth. W.Dam, The GATT: Law and International Economic Organization Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 Eighth Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 410 Subject: Seminar Paper - II L4 PSDA 3 C5 Any one of the seminar papers from the following: International Commercial Law Election Law International Humanitarian Law Indirect Taxes
V.S. Rama Devi & S.K. Mehendiratta, Election Law, Practice and Procedure, Butterworths Publishers, 2013 P.C. Jain & Kiran Jain, Election Law and Practice, Chawla Publishers, 2012 References: P.M. Bakshi, The Constitution of India¸ Universal Publishing Company Ltd., 2014 The Representation of Peoples’ Act, 1950 (Bare Act), Universal Publishing Company Ltd., 2014 The Representation of Peoples’ Act, 1951(Bare Act), Universal Publishing Company Ltd., 2014 The Presidential and Vice-Presidential (Election) Act, 1952(Bare Act), Universal Publishing Company Ltd., 2014 The Registration of Elector Rules, 1960(Bare Act), Universal Publishing Company Ltd., 2014 The Conduct of Election Rules, 1961(Bare Act), Universal Publishing Company Ltd., 2014 Eighth Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 410 (c) Subject: International Humanitarian Law L4 PSDA 3 C5 Unit – I: Introduction (Lectures –10) History Evolution Growth
Unit – II: Geneva Conventions Systems (Lectures – 10) a. Geneva Convention I, II, III, IV Unit – II: Armed Conflicts (Lectures – 10) Internal Armed Conflict International Armed Conflicts Non-International Armed Conflicts Unit – IV: Enforcement Machinery (Lectures – 10) a. International Criminal Court b. ICRC PSDA (Professional Skill Development Activities) 3 Hrs/Week Text Books: Ingrid Detter, The Law of War, Cambridge, 2000 Roberts and R. Guelff, eds. , Documents on the Laws of War. Oxford, 2000 References: Legality of the Threat or Use of nuclear weapons, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports (1996) M.K. Balachandran and Rose Verghese (eds.), International Humanitarian Law, ICRC, 1997 Ravindra Pratap, “India’s Attitude towards IHL”, in Mani (ed.), International Humanitarian Law in South Asia, Geneva: ICRC, 2003 Eighth Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 410 (d) Subject: Indirect Taxes L4 PSDA 3 C5 Unit – I: Central Excise (Lectures–10) Background and Introduction to Excise Law in India Structure of Excise Law in India Meaning of ‘Manufacture’ under section 2(f) and ‘Manufacturer’ under Section 2(f)
Non-Intervention in domestic Affairs Unit – IV: Dispute Settlements in International Economic Law (Lectures– 10) International Organisations IMF WTO EC Between States and Foreign Investors ICC ICSID PSDA (Professional Skill Development Activities) 3 Hrs/Week Text Book: A.F. Lowenfeld, International Economic Law, New York: Mathew Bender, 1979 References: M. Bedjaoui, Towards a New International Economic Order, Paris : UNESCO, 1979 I.F.I.. Shihata, Legal Treatment of foreign Investment, Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1993 Ninth Semester LLB Paper Code: LLB 507 &LLB 509 Subject: Law of International Organisations L4 PSDA 3 C5 Unit – I: Introduction (Lectures-10) IPU League of Nations ILO Unit – II: Legal Personality (Lectures-10) a. The Reparations Case (ICJ Report 1949) Unit – III: Relations with States (Lectures -10) Members Non-Members