Introduction to Law and the Indian Legal System

What is it all about? (Click here to Register)

(This course is currently unavailable to register. However you are free to visit the course page and view all the lecture videos for free)

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown our lives out of gear in such a manner that all human activity in the first half of 2020 is turning out to be disoriented and disjointed. Some of us have coped better than the rest and some of us haven’t been able to cope at all. Ever since this crisis began, we at the CMR University, School of Legal Studies, realised that the only way is to constantly move forward. Therefore, our motto, established during the initial period of ‘lockdown’ and inactivity, was to ‘Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Busy’ and this, we did.
All our teachers and students have been engaging with each other online, using all possible alternatives, in order to stay busy. As the lock down ends and we are compelled to make an attempt at refocusing our lives and careers in spite of the pandemic; as we decide to learn and live with the idea of a deadly contagion lurking around the corner, we understand that this is exceedingly overwhelming, for many people to accept. However, we must realise that in spite of all that has already transpired and all that we have, in our darkest dreams, envisioned, we have no other choice but to move forward. Accepting this is probably the only key to our well being.

During the time we spent lecturing in front of our laptops and other devices, we have often wondered, whether the students who turned off their videos were dozing, or those who pointed their cameras in odd directions were doing something else while only pretending to be listening. Yet our students have persevered to participate wholeheartedly in every new innovation and initiative undertaken by our teachers.
we were also acutely aware that, as an institution we had a responsibility which did not end with either donating money to the various funds or with distributing food and rations to the poor. Our core competency was teaching, to be specific, teaching law. How do we make use of this to help society? What could a law teacher in his capacity as a law teacher do, to help? The answer when it came was rather obvious.

Teach Law!

Course Outline & Schedule – (You may click on the topic to access the video of each lecture after 5.00 pm on the scheduled date.)

How its delivered?

We seek to introduce you to the various legal concepts and slowly progress on to acquaint you to the specific laws that govern us. The 9 modules for the course will be delivered in the form of 9 lecture videos uploaded in accordance with the course outline and schedule given above. The video for each individual lecture may be accessed at any time after 5.00 pm on the scheduled date, by clicking on the topic in the schedule given above.

The 9 videos will have accompanying lecture outlines, meticulously prepared to give you an overview of what the lecture was about. The outline will also indicate, all such further reading as may be required for the varied levels of curiosity and interest that may be generated in the eclectic group of people who have registered for this course. The outline will also leave you with a couple of questions/issues to point you in the right direction for your further researches.

Finally, we will also conduct an online test on the specified date and award you an e-certificate in recognition of all your efforts. We will also conduct another test for people, registering later/ unable to attempt on the specified date. Subsequent dates for such repeat tests will be announced periodically.