COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

1 (Regular) Semester-I 1 COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW [Compulsory Paper-I] (The entire syllabus is divided into four units. Eight questions shall be set in all with two questions from each unit. The candidate shall be required to answer four questions in all, selecting one from each unit. All questions carry equal marks) UNIT-I CONSTITUTION & CONSTITUTIONALISM Constitution: Concept, Nature and Importance of Constitution-Evolution of CONSTITUTIONAL Values-Requisites of Ideal Constitution-Historical Evolution of CONSTITUTIONAL Government Constitutionalism: Concept-Evolution-Limitations on Government Power- CONSTITUTIONAL Supremacy-Separation of Power UNIT-II COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONS Scope of COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL Law: Need for COMPARATIVE Study of CONSTITUTIONAL Law in Constitution Making Types of Constitutions: Written , Canada, Australia and India; Unwritten Constitutions-England UNIT-III JUDICIAL REVIEW & CIVIL RIGHTS Judicial Review-Fundamental Rights.

2 Writ Jurisdiction-A COMPARATIVE Study Civil Liberties/Rights: Structure-Enforcement-Individual Rights-Group Rights-National Security FACULTY OF LAW 2 UNIT-IV FEDERALISM Federalism: Concepts of Federalism and Federal Government-Conditions Essential for Federalism; Patterns of Federal Government: , Australia, Canada and India New Trends in Federalism: Cooperative Federalism-Political factors Influencing Federalism, Central Control v. State Autonomy-Dynamics of Federalism Suggested Readings: 1. Alexander M. Bickel: The Least Dangerous Branch: The SC at the Bar of Politics, Yale University Press, New Haven. 2. Anata Kumar Giri: The Rule of Law and Indian Society: From Colonialism to Post Colonialism , in P. Costa and D. Zolo (ed.), The Rule of Law: History, Theory and Criticism, Springer, The Netherlands. 3.

3 Archibald Cox: Court and the Constitution, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 4. B. Z. Tamanaha: Rule of Law in United States , in Randall Peerenboom (ed.), Asian Discourses of Rule of Law, Routledge, London. 5. Charles Fried: Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court, Universal Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. 6. Charles L. Black: The People and the Court: Judicial Review in a Democracy, The Macmillan Company, New York. 7. D. D. Basu: COMPARATIVE Constitution Law, LexisNexis India, Gurgaon. 8. D. D. Basu: Introduction to the Constitution of India, Lexis-Nexis, New Delhi. 9. Donald Kommers: The Value of COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL Law , 9 J. Marshall J. Prac. & Pro. 685 (1976). (Regular) Semester-I 3 10. Douglas V. Verney: The Struggle Over Judicial Review: Supreme Court and Limited Government , in M. P. Singh et. al., (eds.)

4 , Indian Judiciary and Politics: The Changing Landscape, Manohar Book, New Delhi. 11. Ernest A. Young: Foreign Law and the Denominator Problem , 119 Harv. L. Rev. 148 (2005). 12. Goolam E. Vahanvati: Rule of Law: The Sieges Within , in Mool Chand Sharma & Raju Ramachandran, Constitutionalism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Essays in Honour of Soli J Sorabjee, Universal Book Publishing Co., New Delhi. 13. Granville Austin: The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, OUP, Oxford. 14. Gustavo Fernades De Andrade, COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL Law: Judicial Review, 3(3)University of Pennsylvania Journal of CONSTITUTIONAL Law 989-997 (2001). 15. Jan Erk: Explaining Federalism: State, Society and Congruence in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland, Routledge, New York. 16. Jan M. Smits (ed.): Elgar Encyclopedia of COMPARATIVE Law, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

5 17. Jeffrey Jowell: The Rule of Law Today, in Jeffrey Jowell and Dawn Oliver (ed.), The Changing Constitution, OUP, Oxford. 18. M. P. Jain: Indian CONSTITUTIONAL Law, LexisNexis India, Gurgaon. 19. M. P. Singh: Shukla s CONSTITUTIONAL Law, Eastern Book Company, Lucknow. 20. Mark Tushnet: The Constitution of the United States of America: A Contextual Analysis, Hart Publishing Ltd, UK. 21. Mark Tushnet: The Possibilities of COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL Law, 108 Yale. L. J. 1225 (1999). 22. Martha A. Field: The Differing Federalisms of Canada and the United States, 55 Law and Contemp. Probs. 107 (1992). 23. Mathuas Reimann and Reinard Zimmermann: The Oxford Handbook of COMPARATIVE Law, OUP, Oxford. FACULTY OF LAW 4 24. Michael Burgess: COMPARATIVE Federalism, Theory and Practice, Routledge, NewYork, 25. Nicholas Aroney: The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth: The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

6 26. Nuzhat Parveen Khan: COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL Law, Satyam Law International, New Delhi. 27. Roger P. Alford: In Search of a Theory for CONSTITUTIONAL Comparativism, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 639 (2005). 28. S. P. Sathe: Judicial Activism in India: Transgressing Borders and Enforcing Limits, OUP, Oxford. 29. Sujit Choudhry: Globalisation in Search of Justification: Toward a Theory of COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL Interpretation, 74 Ind. L. J. 819 (1999). 30. Tom Ginsburg: Judicial Review in New Democracies: CONSTITUTIONAL Courts in Asian Cases, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 31. Tony Blackshield and George Williams: Australian CONSTITUTIONAL Law and Theory Commentary and Materials, The Federation Press, Sydney. 32. U. Baxi: Rule of Law in India: Theory and Practice , in Randall Peerenboom (ed.), Asian Discourses of Rule of Law, Routledge, London.

7 33. Vicki C. Jackson and Mark V. Tushnet: COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL Law, Foundation Press, New York. (Regular) Semester-I 5 FACULTY OF LAW 6 COMPARATIVE criminal PROCEDURE (The entire syllabus is divided into four units. Eight questions shall be set in all with two questions from each unit. The candidate shall be required to answer four questions in all, selecting one from each unit. All questions carry equal marks) UNIT I criminal JUDICIAL PROCESS & FAIR TRIAL criminal Judicial Process Models o Crime Control Model and Due Process Model. o Adversary Model and Inquisitorial Model. Concept of Fair Trial in criminal procedure and its essential elements o Media Trial v. Fair Trial o Broad features of Indian criminal justice procedures UNIT II FUNCTIONARIES IN THE criminal JUSTICE SYSTEM Functionaries in the criminal Justice System and their Role o The Police and Investigation o Prosecuting Agencies and Their Role o The Defence Counsel o The Trial Court o Prison Authorities UNIT III FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS & criminal PROCEDURE Fundamental Human Rights and their protection, relation to criminal procedure of India, England and America.

8 O Rights of accused and their CONSTITUTIONAL protection o Rights on Arrest o Right to Legal Aid including Right to Speedy trial o Right against Double Jeopardy o Right to Bail Rights of Victims and their Role in criminal Justice System o Compensation to victims o Plea Bargaining UNIT IV (Regular) Semester-I 7 EVIDENCE & EXTRADITION Law relating to Confessions in India and England, USA Concept of Dying declaration & its Evidentiary Value in India & UK, USA Extradition o Kinds of Extradition Treaties o Law and Practice as to Extradition o Relationship with the o Extra Territorial Jurisdiction of C. Suggested Readings: I) Books: 1. Glanville Williams, The Proof of Guilt, Stevens & Sons, London 2. Seervai, CONSTITUTIONAL Law of India, Vol. I (Commentaries on relevant Articles of Fundamental Rights) Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi 3. Herbert L. Packer, The Limits of criminal Sanction, Stanford University Press, Califoria 4.

9 Inbau, Thompson and Sonele, criminal Justice Vol. II; Foundation Press, New York 5. J. S. Verma, New Dimensions of Justice, Universal Law Publishing Co., New Delhi 6. Vibhuti (Ed.), criminal Justice, Eastern Book Company, Lucknow 7. Kelkar, , Outlines of criminal Procedure, Eastern Book Company, Lucknow 8. M. Monir, Law of Evidence, Universal Law Publishing - an imprint of LexisNexis 9. , Indian CONSTITUTIONAL Law, LexisNexis, New Delhi 10. R. Deb. S. Pande, Release on Bail, Law and Practice, ILI Publication, New Delhi 11. Vepa P. Sarathi, Law of Evidence, Eastern Book Company, Lucknow II) Reports: 1. Annual Survey of Indian Law on criminal Procedure by Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. 2. Government of India, Committee on Reforms of criminal Justice System (Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi, 2003) FACULTY OF LAW 8 3. Law Commission of India, Forty-Eighth Report: Some Questions Under the Code of criminal Procedure Rules 1970 (Government of India, New Delhi, 1972) 4.

10 Law Commission of India, Forty-First Report: The criminal Procedure Code 1898 (Government of India, New Delhi, 1969) 5. Law Commission of India, Fourteenth Report: Reform of Judicial Administration, Vol. 2 (Government of India, New Delhi, 1958) 6. Law Commission of India, Sixty-Ninth Report: Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (Government of India, New Delhi, 1977) 7. Law Commission of India, Thirty-Seventh Report: The criminal Procedure Code 1898 (Sections 1-176) (Government of India, New Delhi, 1967) 8. Law Commission of India, Thirty-Sixth Report: Section 497-499 of the , 1898 Grant of Bail with Conditions (Government of India, New Delhi, 1967) 9. Law Commission of India, Two Hundred Report: Freedom of Speech v. Fair Trial (Government of India, New Delhi, 2006) 10. Report of the Expert Committee on Legal Aid Govt. of India (1973) 11. The Law Commission 268th Report, Amendments to criminal Procedure Code, 1973- Provisions Relating to Bail,(May 2017) 12.