Legal Methods

Unit I — The Concept- Law and the Legal System

What is Law and Legal System?, Understanding of Law, Legal Systems and the Institutions, Normative Systems-Law, Society, Religion and the Morality, Law as a System, Law as a Normative System, Conceptual differences in various Normative Systems, What is Legal Method and the purpose of Legal Methods, Legal Methods and Non-Law Legal Methods, Law as an instrument of social engineering

• Meaning of Law, Rules, Regulation and Policy
• Law
• Law and Morality, Ancient Indian concept of Dharma

Unit II — The Sources of Law

What are the sources of Law?, Law, Reason and Law of Nature, The Constitutionalism and the Constitutional set up, Various Sources of Law-Legislation, Custom & Usages, Judicial Precedents, Juristic, Opinions.

• Sources of law — custom and treaty, legislation, precedent
• Sources of law
• Precedent — Meaning and nature of Precedent as a source of law
• Legislation — Meaning, Nature and Scope of Legislation as a source of law Kinds of Legislation

Unit III — Location of a System - various systems of law

The Common Law System (Anglo Saxon), The Civil Law System, The Roman Law System, Ecclesiastical System, The Indian Legal System,

Unit IV — Types of Law

National Law and International Law, The Substantive & Procedural Law, The Civil Law and Criminal Law, Penal and Remedial Law.

• Learning the Law: Chapters: 1.The Divisions of the Law

Unit V — Legal Material

Legislation, Bill, Act, Code and Statute, Statutes, Notifications, Orders, Ordinances and Rules, Judicial Precedents & Decisions, Stare Decisis, Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dicta, Law Reports and Digests, Parliamentary Debates.

• Law Reports, Magazines and References to Case Laws Law Reports Law Magazines Explanation of citations
• Statutes (Enactments) — Meaning and Classification
• Precedent — Meaning and nature of Precedent as a source of law
• Case Law Technique

Unit VI — Legal Reasoning

Legal Reasoning-Inductive, Deductive, Reasoning by Analogy, Legal Argument Construction, Fallacies in Reasoning,

• Basic features of Inductive and Deductive reasoning and their uses in Courts
• Analogy — characteristic of a good and bad analogy. Its use in law — circumstantial evidence
• Fallacies — Its kinds — Fallacies

Unit VII — Tools for Knowing & Learning Laws

Legal Research Methodology, Moot Courts, Class Room Lectures and Lecture based interaction, Analysis of judicial decisions, Visual Aids, Questions and Answers, Print Media, social media and Electronic Media, Various Legal Skills: Academic Skills: Studying and · Analysing the Law and Methods & Techniques of Legal Research, Practical Skills: Presentations, Mooting, Negotiations and Client Counselling

• Games Lawyers need to play — Understanding Moot Problems and Memorials
• Case analysis and case briefs-relevant Indian case laws