Concept of a Legal System
Concept, sources and functions of Law
The divisions of Law
Major Legal systems of the contemporary world and their distinctive features
Place of Indian Legal System among the major legal systems of the world
State and Non-state legal systems
Using Law Library
Reading a legislation
Reading a case
Distinctions between ratio decidendi and obiter-dictum
Finding the ratio-decidendi of a case
Law making agencies - Legislatures and Courts
Nyaya Panchayats
Lok Adalats
Law enforcement agencies
Legal Profession
Legal Aid
Legal Education
Constitutional Governments
Separation of Powers
Rule of Law
Democracy
Secularism
Classical Hindu Conceptions of Law
Islamic Conceptions of Law
Tribal or indigenious conceptions of law
A brief sketch of administration of Justice from 1612-1726
Mayors Court of 1726
Regulating Act and Supreme Court at Calcutta
Judicial innovations and reforms of Warren Hestings
Judicial innovations and reforms of Lord Cornwallis
Establishment of High courts and their writ jurisdiction
Justice Equity and Good Conscience
Trial of Nandkumar, Patna Case, and Cossijurah Case
Anglicisation of Hindu and Islamic Law
The process of Codification: Charter of 1833; law commissions in colonial period
Background and principles of great codes
Assessment of the colonial codes and legal system by the law reforms commissions since independence
Minto Morley Reforms of 1909
The Govt of India Act 1919
The Govt of India Act 1935