Syllabus for
Master of Law (Corporate and Commercial Law)
Academic Year  (2023)

The School of Law offers Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes in law as per the guidelines of the Bar Council of India and the University Grants Commission.  It has a flexible curriculum offering several options in different areas of specialization. It is devised keeping in mind the requirements of legal profession and academia.

The programmes offered at the School of Law incorporate a number of special opportunities such as internships, clinical programme, supervisory research and writing. In order to promote interaction between students and legal professionals, seminars, guest lectures and workshops are conducted on various subjects of law at regular intervals. In addition to the mandatory courses spanning across a ten semester programme, the School of Law has also introduced numerous other value-added courses and programmes for the benefit of students.

Vision: Excellence and Service 

Mission: To Create and Proactively create in-depth legal knowledge in the Student Community so that they can transfer their acquired knowledge to the larger benefit of society in accordance with professional ethics and values. 

This Specialization is designed to serve the interests of students who intend to practice in the area of Corporate Law. It aims at aligning the objectives of a Corporate Lawyer with the goals of business organizations. The subjects range from foundational papers to advanced ones such as International Trade Law, Commercial Arbitration, Corporate Governance, etc.

Continuous internal assessments for theory course 50%, End semester examination 50%.

The paper intends to undertake a comparative analysis of the growth of public law, structure of governments and polities, legislative process, fundamental rights and the role of the judiciary in USA, UK and France in order to have a better understanding and assessment of the public law principles, practices and institutional mechanisms that work the polity in India.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: International Trade Law has two aspects: public and private. The public aspect deals with the harmonization  and coordination of national commercial policies and private aspect seeks  to   provide  a legal framework  for  International  commercial  transactions  between  individuals  belonging  to  different  nationalities.  This course covers both public and private aspects.

1. To familiarize the students about the World Trade Organization and its role in International trade.

2. To give an insight into the Origin of the WTO, sources of WTO law, structure, functions, dispute settlement mechanism, principles of the WTO, dumping and anti-dumping and allied matters related thereto.

3. To familiarize the students about the various agreements entered into under the auspices of the WTO.

4. 4.  To acquaint the students with the transnational commercial law covering history of lexmercatoria, UNDROIT and UNCITRAL, International Sales Contract, Structure and features of the Vienna Convention.  To give an over-view of law relating to   International Carriages, multi-modal transportation, International payments, Role of ICC, International commercial arbitration and the related matters thereto.

5. To give an over- view of the law and policy of India in relation to international trade.

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

1. To discuss the structure, functions and sources of WTO.

2. To trace the historical background of WTO.

3. To examine the principles of WTO law.

4. To analyse the dispute settlement mechanism of WTO.

5. To discuss various agreements entered into under the auspices of the World Trade Organization.

6. To explain the various aspects relating to international sales transactions and allied matters related thereto.

7. The students will be able to give an over-view of FDI, Customs Act, SEZ’s in relation to International trade.

8. To apply the concepts, principles and provisions learnt to the contemporary issues in International trade law.

9. To identify, analyse and propose solutions to the issues involved in the field of International trade law.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The processes of globalization and liberalization have brought a considerable awareness towards improving the competitive process in developing economies such as India. Until recently most of the developing countries operated without a structured competition policy, and have justified the intervention by the state over economic activities. India owing to its WTO obligations enacted Competition Act, 2002. The course seeks provide fundamentals of market economy and extensive knowledge of application of competition policy in India.

The course aims to study the developments of the policy of free and fair competition in India. The course will provide an analysis of the legal developments, from MRTP to the Competition Act. The course will analyze the progress of the Competition Law in various legal systems and also determine the role of WTO in its policies.

This subject aims at an understanding of the basic principles of E-Commerce and gives an insight into the application of this important area. It also analyses the impact of other areas such as IP and attempts a holistic view. It would make the students aspiring for corporate jobs more up-to-date.

Course Description: Commercial arbitration is the preferred method of resolving commercial disputes both globally as well as within India. Disputes relating to international trade, foreign investments, insurance and reinsurance, and construction are generally resolved by arbitration. In India, the Arbitration & Conciliation Act 1996 has been enacted in pursuance of the UNCITRAL model law incorporating provisions enacted as per the Geneva Convention and the New York Convention.

Course Objectives: The course intends to describe and explain the principles and specific legal requirements in a commercially arbitration, including the limitations of matters that may be legally arbitrated. The course also includes the legal framework for, and major legal issues relating to, international commercial arbitration under the New York Convention of 1958 and the Geneva Convention. It identifies the rights and responsibilities of parties to the arbitration and powers and functions of arbitrator.

The object of the course is to impart, theoretical as well as practical, knowledge and understanding, to the students of international arbitration. After the end of the course, the students shall have gained a thorough knowledge of the new Swedish Arbitration Act, UNCITRAL’s model law, its arbitral rules, the New York Convention of 1958, and of the legal issues that might arise in this context. Additionally, the students shall gain an overall knowledge of the world’s leading arbitration institutions, and their rules of procedure. The course also focuses on international commercial arbitration outlining the legal issues in the choice of law and forum for arbitration.

The course aims at understanding the various jurisprudential theories and concepts, the basics of law and economics and also to hone their soft skills in order to enhance their capacities to build a strong foundation for the study of Master of Law course.

This course intends to enhance the legal research skills among students. Students would be able to appreciate the nuances of legal research by discussions outlined in Unit I of the syllabus with basics of legal research. Unit II deals with Research problem, hypothesis, Research design and sampling. Unit III deals with Research Methods and tools. Unit IV deals with Tabulation, analysis, interpretation and Report Writing. Unit V deals with Legal Writing.

It is said that we are now living in a global neighborhood, which is not yet global village.  This is the result of the so called “globalization” which refers to those processes that tend to create and consolidate a unified economy, a single ecological system, and a complex network of communications that covers the whole globe, even if it doesnot penetrate into every part of it.  We find in every discipline studies under the titles global, globalism and globalization but not much in the discipline of law and now it is entering it also.  The process of globalization has its own impact on every discipline and this paper or course intends to study its influence on the discipline of law. The purpose is to sensitize students of law about implications of the process of globalization on basic principles, concepts and ideas underlying the discipline of law. To name a few the concept of law itself, justice, human rights and legal process.  The thrust is to analyze and evaluate them from a global perspective. 

This course seeks to provide the investment mechanism in India and the regulatory framework for the protection of investor and other stake holders of the market.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Trade in goods protected by various forms of intellectual

property rights is a common feature of today’s market economy. IPR plays a prominent

role in regulating the availability and accessibility of information based goods. It often

depicts the conflicting interest of the owners and users of intellectual property and the

policy options various countries adopt to achieve a level playing field for different

stakeholders. This paper aims to give an account of the four major classes of IPR that

are commercially significant and hotly debated. The objective of this paper is to expose

the students to the commercial law of intellectual property with respect to their

acquisition, maintenance and enforcement.

Course description:

Corporate governance course has been conceptualized in order to impart to the students a conceptual and theoretical understanding of Corporate governance. It is one of the most important fields of study for the corporate law students as it helps them to identify the issues related to corporate failures through cases studies.  Students will also be given an insight into the legal and regulatory framework of corporate governance in India.  A comparative perspective will also be delved into in order to understand the best practices and standards that differentiate the Indian corporate governance standards from the global corporate governance norms.  Corporate frauds is one of key areas which will be dealt with in order to understand the reasons for corporate governance failure and the remedial measures that need to be in place.

This course is spread into 6 units.

Unit-1 deals with, theories, models, evolution of corporate governance.

Unit-2 deals with the legislative frame work of corporate governance.

Unit-3 deals with Board of directors and their role in corporate governance.

Unit-4 deals with Corporate Governance and Shareholder rights.

  Unit-5 emphasizes upon ESG in Global Perspective

  Unit-6 deals with Corporate Social Responsibility.

Course Objectives: Corporations wield enormous economic power and impact the society as the way they carry on business and therefore, governance of such institutions should be done in a prudent and transparent manner. Purpose of the course is to ponder and analyse the various pillars of corporate governance and study its regulation through Corporate legislations and regulations issued from time to time.

To implement and evaluate an innovative approach to a law seminar course intended to develop students' presentation skills and encourage them to think critically about contemporary legal issues. Further, the objectives of this course are to enhance verbal and written presentation skills of students and to develop analytical skills as students learn about sides of a contemporary issue in legal practice. The students also enhance their skills in providing peer evaluations Specific School curricular competencies addressed by the course are: (1) maintain professional competence by identifying and analyzing emerging issues; and (2) participate in self-learning and professional development

To equip the students to teach UG law students and make them understand art of preparing for the classes. This course is in continuation of the Practical –II

COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course is designed to test the research prowess of the

students and their analytical skills. It is aimed at enabling the students to hone their

skills as a researcher that would be of immense help to them in their career.

Students are required to select their dissertation topic at the beginning of the academic

year (1 st Semester) and register with a faculty member for Guidance.

Dissertation work carries 200 marks in total and research report has to be submitted

before the commencement of the examination of 2 nd Semester.