BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF LAW
ORDINANCE FOR “COURSE WORK” FOR Ph.D. PROGRAMME IN LAW
1. COURSE WORK
(1) Every student admitted to Ph.D. Programme in the Faculty of Law shall be required
to pass a “Course Work” of minimum 20 credits.
(2) The candidate can submit his/her thesis only after passing the course work. A
candidate has to clear the course work in a maximum of four semesters. A candidate
can take a maximum of two attempts for passing a course. If he/she does not pass
within this period, his/her Ph.D. registration shall stand cancelled. There shall be no
provision of supplementary examination.
(3) The 20 credit course shall normally be spread over two semesters. Semester for Ph.D.
course work shall start from the academic session July and January.
(4) The 20 credits shall be distributed as follows:
(a) Legal Research and Method
08
(b) Advance Legal Theory
08
(c) Theme Oriented Course Work
04
Explanation: For Theme Oriented course work there shall not be any
examination. The satisfactory report of the supervisor shall be sufficient to
declare the candidate successful in that course work.
2. EXAMINATION AND EVALUATION
(1) End Semester examinations shall be held for Ph.D. course taught in the particular
semester.
(2) Examination shall be held at the end of each semester and shall be notified by the
Controller of Examinations. Every student shall be required to fill up the
examination form within the time notified by the Controller of Examinations. A
candidate shall be eligible for appearing in the examination if he/she fulfils the
minimum attendance requirement and submits the examination form within the
stipulated time.
(3) Attendance requirement shall be the same as provided in the Ph,D. ordinances.
(4) A candidate, who does not fulfill the above requirements, shall not be allowed to
appear in the concerned examination.
(5) Teachers of the Faculty admitted to Ph.D. research programme are exempted from
attending classes of the course work. However they have to appear in the course
work examination as prescribed in the ordinance.
(6) Preparation and presentation of seminar on research plan proposal and the other
seminar, where applicable, and the review of literature, if applicable, shall be
evaluated by the concerned RPC while all Discipline-Specific and Research Theme
Specific courses shall be evaluated by examiners appointed by the Board of
Examiners.
(7) Based on performance in the examination and other assessments, the candidate shall
be declared pass or fail. A candidate shall be declared pass in a Discipline-Specific
and Research-Theme Specific theory and practical course if he/she secures at least
(8) 50% marks in the course. For other items viz. literature review/field work etc., the
candidate shall be declared only passed or failed based on assessment by the
concerned RPC without any marks being assigned. The preparation and presentation
of research plan proposal, as required under the Ph.D. Ordinances, shall be evaluated
by RPC as well as DRC and the candidate declared pass or fail.
(9) The candidate shall be considered to have passed the course work of the Ph.D.
programme only when he/she has passed all courses.
3. TRANSITORY PROVISIONS
(1)
For those candidates who have been admitted in session 2009-10 and 2010-2011,
this period for course work shall apply beginning from January 2011.
(2)
For the candidates admitted to Ph.D. programme in the academic session 20092010 and 2010-2011, the course work for Ph.D. Programme shall commence from
January 2011, and they have to complete the course work of 20 credit hours,
including examinations, in two semesters only.
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LSP-01 LEGAL RESEARCH AND METHOD
Criteria of Good Research: Meaning and objects of Research; Importance of
Research Methodology; Kinds of Legal Research: Historical, Analytical,
Philosophical.
Legal Research in India: Evolution and Development; Problems and Challenges.
Interdisciplinary Perspective on Legal Research.
Identification of Research Problem; Survey of Literature; Working Hypothesis.
Tools and Techniques of Legal Research; Doctrinal and Empirical Research;
Interview technique; Scaling technique of Socio-Legal Research; Determination
of Sample Design; Data Collection and Analysis.
Main Steps in Research Writing; Lay Out; Chapterization; Preparation of
Introduction and Conclusion; Treatment of Quotations; Methods of Citation;
Bibliography; Abbreviations.
Computer Application in Legal Research.
LSP-02 ADVANCE LEGAL THEORY
Law and Social Transformation.
Ethics, Morality and Law.
Modern Theories of Justice with specific reference to Nozick, Rawls,and Finnis
Economic Approach to Law with reference to Posner.
Inter-relationship between Law and Modernization in a developing society.
Modern Challenges to Legal Formalism and Recent Legal Theories: Critical
Legal Studies; Feminism; Postmodernism.
New Perspective on Legal Theory: Human Rights; Sustainable Development;
Globalization.