Title CODE LB-301 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – I.pdf ✅

Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla Semester-III Academic Session 2024-25 Paper Code: LB-301 Page 1 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – I Course Outline: - The Constitution of India contains both the governance texts and right-justice texts. The former includes the state system of machinery at the Union and State level. This course is designed, primarily, to focus and cover, comprehensively, the governance provisions in it. The Right or justice texts of the Constitution would form substance of studies in the next subject, titled Constitutional Law-II, offered in fourth Semester. Constitution is fundamental law of the land. It is source of all powers for, as well as limitations on the organs of state, viz. the executive, legislature, and judiciary. No action of the state would be valid unless it is sanctioned or permissible by some provision(s) of the Constitution. Therefore, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the nature and working of the Constitution. This course is intended to initiate students to the study of the Constitutional law and help them acquire appropriate critical abilities. To orient students towards these proposes and develop an analytical approach, this Course is primarily based on case laws, selected other readings and handouts supplied by the teacher(s) teaching the subject. As the Constitutional has been divided in two parts. This is part one which primarily contains discussion on nature of the Constitution and its functionary. There is lot of scholarly and authoritative works in form of Articles/books, judgments, etc. available on the subject by Indian as well as foreign legal luminaries, political thinker, judges. Their work has contributed in laying down certain norms to decide the fundamental and contemporary issues of the Constitution. Furthermore, a comparative insight from the other jurisdictions has been very significant in understanding the nature and working of Indian Constitution. Accordingly, the course also utilises the advancement of legal concepts, doctrines, and institutions from other Common Law countries such as the USA and UK, and the relevant concepts from the Civil law jurisdictions. In sum and substance, the course aims and offers an in-depth understanding of the Constitution and Constitutional Law to students, and expected that at the end of the discussions in the semester shall be able to develop capacity of critical analysis.