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As we released our ‘Prospectus 2004’ on 22nd March 2004, we also began our journey
towards realization of a dream- a vision of a full-blown University with a number
of Schools comprising specialized Centers of Excellence. Law being an instrument
of social engineering, the University shall strive to project law as part of an
integrated understanding of the various branches of knowledge, at the same time
keeping in view the demands of the legal profession. The approach will necessarily
be inter-disciplinary. The School will eventually develop from various Centers of
Excellence on specialized branches of legal and paralegal studies. Indeed, law cannot
be conceived in a vacuum. It evolves from a society; it seeks to respond to the
problems of the society. A socially relevant legal system, by definition, calls
for multi-disciplinary appreciation. Keeping this in view, the idea of establishing
various Schools of Legal Studies, as originally conceived in the GNLU Prospectus
2004, has undergone some review by now.
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We are now visualizing the evolution of the following eight Schools, each comprising
various Centers of Excellence. Besides these, a Museum of Indian Legal History is
also envisaged.
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1. School of Law, Science and Technology
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Given the breath-taking revolution taking place in the vast and numerous fields
of science and technology since the end of the Second World War, it is high time
that principal impacts of this revolution on the society and hence on the legal
system must be studied and systematically integrated with legal pedagogy as well
as research. Hence this School. Prominent areas to be covered by the School of Law,
Science and Technology currently identified are: Air Law, Space Law, Law of Telecommunications
and IT, Law of Multimodal Transport, Maritime Law, Law and Biotechnology, Law relating
to Agro-industries, Law relating to Industrial Safety and Industrial Accidents,
Environmental Law, Legal Aspects of Forensic Sciences, Health and Medical Law (Including
Pharmaceutical Law), Technology and Intellectual Property Law, Energy Laws (conventional
and non-conventional energy sources), Laws relating to Natural Resources Technologies,
Cyber Laws and Commercial Transactions (e-commerce, e-contracts, e-banking etc.),
Cyber Crimes, and Consumer Protection Laws and Frontier Sciences and Technologies.
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Thrust Areas of this school include: Air Law and Space Law, Maritime Law, Telecommunications
and IT Law, Law of Multimodal Transport, Law and Biotechnology and Bio-Engineering,
Intellectual Property Law and the New Technologies, Law relating to Energy Resources,
Law relating to Natural and Mineral Resources, Cyber Laws and E-transactions, Law
relating to Health and Medical Sciences, Consumer Protection and Frontier Technologies,
Science, Technology and Human Rights.
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2. School of Public Law and Policy Sciences
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The School should cover Jurisprudence and Legal Thought, Sociology of Law, Law making
and implementing processes, Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, Role of Lawyers in
Policy-making and Policy-implementation, Law and Politics, International Law and
Organization and International Relations, and the Relationship between International
Law and Municipal Law, among others.
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Thrust Areas include: Sociology of Law, Jurisprudence and Legal Thought, Law making
and Implementing Processes, Nature of Judicial Process, Comparative Law and Comparative
Jurisprudence, International Law- Public and Private, International Relations and
Organizations.
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3. School of Criminal Law and Criminology
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This School should encompass Criminology and Criminal Law, Sociology of Crimes,
Criminology and Penology, Criminal Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Criminal Procedure,
Victims of Crime, Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Prisons and the Law, ‘Minor’
Acts and Criminal Justice, Criminality in non-criminal laws (Revenue Laws, Environmental
Law, Company Law), Law of Evidence and Criminal Law, Special Laws and Crimes: Anti-terrorist
Laws, Gender Justice and Criminal Law, White Collar Crimes and the Law, and Law
relating to Food Adulteration.
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Thrust Areas include: Sociology of Crimes, Criminology and Penology, Criminal Law
and Procedure, Criminal Justice System and Human Rights, Law of Crimes and non-criminal
laws, Law of Evidence, Special Laws and Criminal Justice, Gender Justice and Criminal
Law, White Collar Crimes and Offences against Election Laws.
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4. School of Law and Economics
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This School should encompass Economics of Jurisprudence, Industrial Law, Law relating
to Agriculture, Law relating to Natural Resources, Law of Water Resources, Law and
Development, Law and Poverty, Law of Employment, Law relating to Commercial and
Trade Transactions, Law of Banking and Insurance, Law of Property, Impact of Liberalization
and Globalization on Law, International Trade and Economic Law (including WTO),
Intellectual Property Law (Trade Marks, Patents, copyrights & Designs), Law relating
to International Financial Institutions, Law of International Investments and Financial
Markets and Legal Aspects of Transnational Corporations.
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Thrust Areas of research include: Laws relating to Property, Law relating to Water
Resources, Land Laws, Law of Banking and Insurance, Corporate Law, Revenue Laws,
International Trade and Economic Law (including institutions), Law of Investments,
Financing, and Capital Markets and TNCs and the Law.
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5. School of Personal Laws
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This School should encompass the Role of Customary Law in regulation of family and
other interpersonal relations, religious and gender biases and bases of such law,
problems and prospects of codification, statute law, judge-made law and problems
of implementation.
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Thrust Areas include: Hindu Law, Mohammedan Law, Christian Law, Role of Customary
Law in interpersonal relations, Settlement of Disputes under Personal Laws, Private
International Law and Personal Laws: Adoptions, Marriages and Divorces, succession,
Personal Laws and Gender Justice.
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6. School of Social Sciences
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The School of Social Sciences will encompass all basic disciplines of Humanities-
Commerce, History, Human Rights and Duties, Economics, Philosophy and Logic, Political
Science, Psychology, and Sociology. It should also cover Language Studies. The faculty
should participate not only in the teaching of the individual disciplines, but also
in interdisciplinary projects with other schools.
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Thrust Areas include: Commercial and Economic Studies, Philosophy, Culture and Language
Studies, Political Studies, Historical Studies and Studies in Psychology, Sociology
and Human Rights.
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7. School of Physical and Life Sciences
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The School of Physical and Life Sciences will encompass not only Physics, Chemistry,
and Life Sciences, but Computer Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Sciences,
Industrial Technologies, Energy and Raw Materials, and Geological Sciences as well.
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Thrust Areas include: Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Computer Sciences, Environmental
Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Industrial Sciences and Technologies, Energy and
Raw Materials and Geological Sciences.
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8. School of Studies in ADR Mechanisms
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Although Alternative Disputes Resolution mechanisms have been as old as human societies,
lately they have received special impetus, particularly in the light of the process
of globalization and liberalization gathering momentum. A school dedicated to the
study of diverse modes of conflict management is therefore in order. In fact, we
expect the School to have a much broader canvass encompassing the entire gamut of
issues and institutions relevant to conflict management, both national, transnational
and international, and both business/commercial and non-commercial.
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Thrust Areas include: Conflict Management, Theory and Practice, Alternative Disputes
Resolution Mechanisms- from the ancient to the modern, Commercial and Business Arbitration,
International Commercial Arbitration, Settlement of International Disputes (negotiation,
mediation, good offices, inquiry, conciliation, arbitration judicial settlement),
WTO and settlement of Trade disputes, Settlement of claims relating to international
carriage of goods and passengers, and Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards
and judgments, national and international.
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