Master of Laws (Access to Justice)

Description

Summary of the Programme:

To impart knowledge and skills in socio-legal awareness to legal professionals to work with the marginalised and vulnerable groups through this unique one-year format (as per UGC Notification 2013) LLM Programme. Law plays a significant role in imparting development, empowerment and access to justice to communities, societies and people. This Programme captures all perspectives of state and non-state actors who are participating in the development of the country. The school's aspirational goals are to improve skills in socially relevant legal education, research, and training in fieldwork while developing legal education and access to justice for underrepresented groups in our society. Vision “of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centered, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all. The objective of the school is to impart knowledge and skills in socio-legal awareness to legal professionals to work with marginalised and vulnerable groups through this unique one-year Programme as per UGC Notification 2013.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

The core Objective of the LLM Course:

1. To develop legal professionals with greater capacity and skill among the law graduates to deliver basic quality legal services to the marginalized and vulnerable, who are most in need of it.
2. To create community lawyers who will work towards social change for people and the community .
3. To promote accessibility to law and justice by eliminating barriers that prevent people from understanding and exercising their laws and rights.
4. To propose and advocate for legislative reform in support of vulnerable groups
5. To spread legal literacy and awareness.
6. To develop socio-legal researchers with strong legal research and legal writing skills.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

• Understanding the relationship between law and society is essential for the welfare of society in a democratic society. As a democratic country, India has a responsibility to establish such a relationship between law and society, in which legislation and policy-making truly serve the needs of society. This duty places equitable access to justice on the shoulders of the four pillars of Indian democracy: the legislature, the executive, the judiciary, and the Media as the fourth estate. The course caters to such needs of promoting access to justice. As a result, the importance of providing equal access to justice has been emphasised through an interdisciplinary LLM course at TISS. All four pillars of the Indian democratic system have firmly fought for equal access to justice, but much more remains to be done. The majority of the marginalized and vulnerable sections of society are still unaware of their basic rights and the safeguards in place to remove barriers to access to justice. As a result, it is critical for sensitising lawyers and individuals to promote the legal dimensions of equitable access to justice. The course covers the socio-economic and political realms and current developments in the transition and transformation of the nation.
• The Access to Justice course has been designed specifically to provide not only an overview of the Indian justice system, but also to cover global aspects of justice, in-depth knowledge about basic rights promoting equal access to justice, modes of realization of such rights, remedies for infringements, and other related important issues. First Semester foundation courses Law and Justice in the Globalized World, Law Justice, and Development, and Comparative Constitutional Law demonstrated global and regional importance with many case illustrations.
• The LLM in Access to Justice offers a unique learning experience from the fieldwork and thematic dissertation that will equip them with the necessary knowledge to deliver the promotion of access to justice for the marginalised It includes perspectives on professional practice and some also include experiential learning activities, such as analysis of real-life situations and case studies. These activities are designed to consolidate the understanding of key theoretical concepts by putting them into practice in real-world contexts and to give them practical experience with documents, drafting skills, and analytical frameworks used in a professional environment. Law is crucial for promoting protecting and applying the notion of justice at international, regional, and domestic levels. This LLM will give them an advanced understanding of justice legal education and basic rights and how it is implemented. Focus on areas that are at the forefront of marginalized rights and utilize academic knowledge to contribute to the progressive development of the nation vis-à-vis relevant socio-legal education.

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*Institute reserves the rights to revise the Fees Structure of programme if necessary.

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