Lectures in Jurisprudence (Student Series)

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Description
Lectures in Jurisprudence 3e is specially designed for students pursuing the three-year or five-year degree course in law education institutes including national law schools, and practicing lawyers. It will also be an interesting reference for students of other disciplines interested in understanding the evolution of law. Beginning with elementary questions, such as what is law and the importance of jurisprudence, the book goes on to discuss legislations, precedence and customs as sources of law, approaches to law, theories of law, and elements of law, administration of justice, rights and duties, persons, property, law of procedures etc.
Key Features:
•    Under each topic principles are explained, illustrated, and contextualised .
•    It also features a separate chapter devoted to topics like Modern trends and theories,
      including critical legal studies, feminist jurisprudence, post-modern legal theory,
      science, technology and law, and globalisation and law.
•    Explains each chapter in lecturette format, by focusing on conceptual clarity.
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Contents
Part I - Law: Nature and Sources
Lecture 1.    Law: its Nature and Functions
Lecture 2.    Importance of Jurisprudence
Lecture 3.    Sources of Law I: Legislation
Lecture 4.    Sources of Law II: Precedent
Lecture 5.    Sources of Law III: Custom
Part II - Law: Theories and Approaches
Lecture 6.    Approaches to Law I: Historical Approach
Lecture 7.    Approaches to Law II: Economic Approach
Lecture 8.    Approach to Law III: Sociological Approach
Lecture 9.    Theories of Law I: Natural Law
Lecture 10.  Theories of Law II: Legal Positivism
Lecture 11.  Theories of Law III: Pure Theory of Law
Lecture 12.  Theories of Law IV: Legal Realism
Lecture 13.  Modern Trends and Theories
Part III - Law and Justice
Lecture 14.  Justice
Lecture 15.  Administration of Justice
Part IV - Elements of Law
Lecture 16.  Rights and Duties
Lecture 17.  Ownership
Lecture 18.  Possession
Lecture 19.  Persons
Lecture 20.  Titles
Lecture 21.  Property
Lecture 22.  Obligations
Lecture 23.  Liability
Lecture 24.  Law of Procedure
Bibliography
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Author Details
Dr NK Jayakumar, is currently Professor and Head, Department of Law, and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He is also Dean, Faculty of Law, Kannur University [Kerala], and Chairman, Post-graduate Hoard of Studies in Law, University of Kerala, and Dr Ambedkar Law University, Chennai. Dr Jayakumar has been selected as a National Associate by the University Grants Commission in 1979. He has been Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra in 1987 and Visiting Professor, Vienna University, Austria in 1998. He has also worked as Secretary of the Kerala  Legislative Assembly during 2000-2001. Other positions held by Dr Jayakumar include Member, Senate and Academic Council, University of Kerala. He is a regular contributor to the Annual Survey of Indian Law, published by the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, and a contributing author of Halsbury's Laws of India, published by LexisNexis. Dr Jayakumar has directed several research projects on socio-legal problems, and is actively associated with several non-governmental organisations in the field of human rights, legal literacy, and law reforms.
An outstanding scholar, and researcher, Dr Jayakumar is the editor of Kerala University Journal of Legal Studies, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy Law Review, since 1977. His main areas of reaching and research arc administrative law, jurisprudence, international law and human rights.
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