English I
Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya · LL.B. Semester 1 · LAIATA5N
Unit I — Law, Language and Literatures
History of the Language of law -Tiersma, Peter M & Solan, Lawrence · The Nature of the legal language -Tiersma, Peter M · The Three Branches of Law and Literature – Richard Posner
Unit II — Short Stories, Dramas and Poems
The Case for the Defence – Grahame Greene [Short Stories] · In the Court: A Short story - Anton Chekhov [Short Stories] · The Benefit of Doubt – Jack London [Short Stories] · The Web of Circumstances – Charles W. Chesnutt [Short Stories] · Before the Law – Franz Kafka [Short Stories] · Witness for the prosecution by Agatha Christie [Short Stories] · The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare (Drama) · Justice – John Galsworthy (Drama) · Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose (Drama) · Where the Mind is Without Fear - Rabindra Nath Tagore (Poem) · "Hope" is the Thing with Feathers - Emily Dickinson (Poem) · Freedom Justice and Equity- Lonnie Hicks (Poem) · Law, Like Love – W. H. Auden (Poem)
Unit III — Prose
Of Judicature – Francis Bacon · Some Reminiscences of the Bar – M. K. Gandhi · The Joy of Reading – A P. J. Abdul Kalam · More Than 100 million Women are Missing - Amartya Sen · M C Chagla – The centenary of a judicial Statemesman – V R Krishna Iyer · The Five Function of the Lawyer - Arthur T Vanderbilt
Unit IV — Gratitude to the Literary Giant
God Sea the Truth but Waits- Leo N Tolstoy · On Laws – Khalil Gibran
Unit V — Refreshing with Grammers
Word Classes (With a special focus on Prepositions and Connectors) · Usage of Tenses, Subject Verb Concord, Usage of Nouns over verbs · Active and Passive Voices · Direct and Indirect Narration · Conjunctions · Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences · Transformation of Sentences · Common errors · Translation.