Syllabus WBSET Law
THE WEST BENGAL COLLEGE SERVICE COMMISSION
STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST
SYLLABUS
SUBJECT: LAW Code No.:
29
UNIT
– I: JURISPRUDENCE
1. Nature and
sources of law
2. Schools of
jurisprudence
3. Law and
morality
4. Concept of
rights and duties
5. Legal personality
6. Concepts of
property, ownership and possession
7. Concept of
liability
8. Law, poverty
and development
9. Global
justice
10. Modernism and post-modernism
UNIT
– II: CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
1. Preamble,
fundamental rights and duties, directive principles of state policy.
2. Union and
State executive and their interrelationship
3. Union and
State legislature and distribution of legislative powers
4. Judiciary
5. Emergency
provisions
6. Temporary,
transitional and special provisions in respect of certain states
7. Election
Commission of India
8. Nature, scope
and importance of administrative law
9. Principle of
natural justice
10. Judicial review of administrative
actions – Grounds.
UNIT
– III: PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IHL
1. International
law – Definition, nature and basis
2. Sources of
International law
3. Recognition
of states and governments
4. Nationality,
immigrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)
5. Extradition
and asylum
6. United Nations
and its organs
7. Settlement of
international disputes
8. World Trade
Organization (WTO)
9. International
humanitarian law (IHL) - Conventions and protocols
10. Implementation of IHL – Challenges
UNIT
– IV: LAW OF CRIMES
1. General
principles of criminal liability – Actus reus and mens rea,
individual and group liability and constructive liability
2. Stages of
crime and inchoate crimes - Abetment, criminal conspiracy and attempt
3. General
exceptions
4. Offences
against human body
5. Offences
against state and terrorism
6. Offences
against property
7. Offences
against women and children
8. Drug
trafficking and counterfeiting
9. Offences
against public tranquility
10. Theories and kinds of punishments,
compensation to the victims of crime
UNIT
– V: LAW OF TORTS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
1. Nature and
definition of tort
2. General
principles of tortious liability
3. General
defenses
4. Specific
torts – Negligence, nuisance, trespass and defamation
5. Remoteness of
damages
6. Strict and
absolute liability
7. Tortious
liability of the State
8. The Consumer
Protection Act 1986 - Definitions, consumer rights and redressal Mechanism
9. The Motor
Vehicles Act, 1988 - No fault liability, third party insurance and claims
tribunal
10. The
Competition Act, 2002 - Prohibition of certain agreements, abuse of dominant position
and regulation of combinations
UNIT
– VI: COMMERCIAL LAW
1. Essential
elements of contract and e-contract
2. Breach of
contract, frustration of contract, void and voidable agreements
3. Standard form
of contract and quasi-contract
4. Specific
contracts - Bailment, pledge, indemnity, guarantee and agency
5. Sale of Goods
Act, 1930
6. Partnership
and limited liability partnership
7. Negotiable
Instruments Act, 1881
8. Company law –
Incorporation of a company, prospectus, shares and debentures
9. Company law –
Directors and meetings
10. Corporate social responsibility
UNIT-VII:
FAMILY LAW
1. Sources and
schools
2. Marriage and
dissolution of marriage
3. Matrimonial
remedies - Divorce and theories of divorce
4. Changing
dimensions of institution of marriage – Live-in relationship
5. Recognition
of foreign decrees in India on marriage and divorce
6. Maintenance,
dower and stridhan
7. Adoption, guardianship
and acknowledgement
8. Succession
and inheritance
9. Will, gift
and wakf
10. Uniform Civil Code
UNIT
–VIII: ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
1. Meaning and
concept of ‘environment’ and ‘environmental pollution’
2. International
environmental law and UN Conferences
3.
Constitutional and legal framework for protection of environment in India
4. Environmental
Impact Assessment and control of hazardous waste in India
5. National
Green Tribunal
6. Concept and
development of human rights
7. Universalism
and cultural relativism
8. International
Bill of Rights
9. Group rights
– Women, children, persons with disabilities, elderly persons, minorities and weaker
sections
10. Protection
and enforcement of human rights in India – National Human Rights Commission,
National Commission for Minorities, National Commission for Women, National
Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission for Schedule Tribes and National
Commission for Backward Classes
UNIT
– IX: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LAW
1. Concept and
meaning of intellectual property
2. Theories of
intellectual property
3. International
conventions pertaining to intellectual properties
4. Copyright and
neighboring rights – Subject matters, limitations and exceptions, infringement and
remedies
5. Law of patent
– Patentability, procedure for grant of patent, limitations and exceptions, infringement
and remedies
6. Law of
trademark – Registration of trademarks, kinds of trademarks, infringement and passing
off, remedies
7. Protection of
Geographical Indications
8. Bio-diversity and Traditional
Knowledge
9. Information
technology law- digital signature and electronic signature, electronic governance,
electronic records and duties of subscribers
10. Cyber crimes,
penalties and adjudication
UNIT
– X: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW AND SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE
1. Comparative
Law – Relevance, methodology, problems and concerns in Comparison
2. Forms of
governments – Presidential and parliamentary, unitary and federal
3. Models of
federalism – USA, Canada and India
4. Rule of Law –
‘Formal’ and ‘substantive’ versions
5. Separation of
powers – India, UK, USA and France
6. Independence
of judiciary, judicial activism and accountability – India, UK and USA
7. Systems of
constitutional review – India, USA, Switzerland and France
8. Amendment of
the Constitution – India, USA and South Africa
9. Ombudsman –Sweden,
UK and India
10. Open
Government and Right to Information - USA, UK and India.
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