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Master of Laws (LLM)

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Faculty: Faculty of Security & Strategic Studies (FSSS)

Department: Department of Law

Program: Master of Laws (LLM)

Course Outline

Master of Laws (LLM) Program: The philosophy of the Master of Laws (LLM) program is to offer our students a broad platform to design their own course of study within parameters set by the department of Law under the Faculty of Security and Strategic Studies. Those parameters include some exposure to National and International law, writing experience, and brief orientation in conducting legal research. The LLM program is also designed to make law graduates fit for law practice and various types of law related jobs in international organizations, governmental agencies as well as in national and internationally operating law firms and enterprises. The LLM program incorporates all the important courses and disciplines pertinent to legal activities throughout the country, region, and even the rest. This program also places equal emphasis on the qualitative as well as analytical approach to the study of law. The LLM program prepares students for high-level professional careers beyond the scope of legal practice and judgeship that may transcends in government and non-government sectors or further study for the Ph.D. degree. This program allows students the choice of a range of courses and these career-focused courses will permit the students to become professionals in a range of cutting-edge occupations.

Program Objectives: The objectives of this program are to:

  • Enable students to formulate accurate analysis when applying statutes, case law, legal concepts and legal principles.
  • Make sure student will be able to demonstrate self-directed learning practices for life-long learning.
  • Make sure student will be able to construct client-centric solutions to legal issues.
  • Prepare students to analyze legal concepts in written and oral form.
  • Make sure students have enough grip on legal discourses in case students decides to pursue PhD
  • Make sure student is passionate about learning and applying Legal knowledge in his/her career and for betterment of the country.

Learning Outcomes: The learning outcomes of the Master of Laws (LLM) programme are to:

  • Critically assess and provide modern, innovative and adequate legal training to complex situations in their line of work at individual, institutional, national and regional level.
  • Acquire advanced specialist knowledge in emerging areas of the law with an in-depth knowledge guided by the specific choices, the candidates may make during their progression within the LLM programme.
  • Conduct independent academic legal research in the legal field and to make a societally relevant contribution to the development of the law.
  • Independently engage in academic discourse with peers from a diversity of legal backgrounds.

Generic Skills: Students should be able to demonstrate the ability to:

  • In-depth knowledge of universal legal issues, in particular as they are dealt with the National and international law.
  • Independently identify, analyze and solve complex legal problems.
  • Work in a creative manner with international and national legal sources and techniques
  • Conduct individual socio legal research.
  • Argue a legal argument and to express himself in an adequate and universal legal language
  • Present both written and oral information in a clear and well-structured form.
  • Know how to use online legal databases and compares legal systems.
  • Works independently (self-management during the writing process of their research work, ending in the final submission of their paper).

Applied only for students, completed undergraduation from BUP.

Semester System

Credit and Class Duration: The Master of Laws Program is a 01-year full time regular master’s program. The program is divided into 02 semesters of 6 months each. In each semester, minimum 15 weeks is dedicated for classroom learning, while remaining weeks are utilized for final examination and other curricular and co-curricular activities. The students are required to register for 14 credits in both first and second semester and 8 credits thesis in the beginning of the 1st semester. Usually, two classes of 120 minutes each in a week for each course is planned during the semester i.e. minimum contact hours for each course in a semester are 60.

Semester-wise Credit Distribution: This LLM program consists of two semesters. The following table shows the semester-wise credit hours:

Course Structure:

  • Total 24 credits for compulsory courses
  • Total 8 credits of thesis, 4 credits viva voce
Semester Credit Remarks
1st 12+2=14 Three Compulsory Courses + Viva Voce
2nd 12+2=14 Three Compulsory Courses + Viva Voce
Thesis (1st + 2nd) 8 Thesis
Total Credit 36  

 

Teaching Strategy: The instructor will conduct the course combining four methods: lecture, group discussion and tutorial class, and field visit. The preliminary orientation and overview of each topic will be covered by a lecture. It will follow a participatory classroom discussion approach where students will be engaged with the topics and ask critical questions. Secondly, several groups will be formed combining three to five members, and the instructor will sit and discuss with each group about two or three particular topics. It will help students to explore more about their specific areas of interests and analyze the events from multiple perspectives. Thirdly, Students will be taken to places of relevance to their course work for a field visit as part of the requirement for this course where they will learn and study the significance of the place and produce a short write-up on different lens of the location. The course teacher will innovate and decide other teaching learning strategies while taking the course.

Assessment Strategy: The assessment and distribution of marks for evaluation shall be as under the following guideline: 

Distribution of Marks:

Grading System % of Total Grade Allocated
Class Attendance and Performance 5%
Mid Term Exam 15%
Class Tests (3 class tests will be held) 10%
Term Paper (Book Review / Research Paper Writing) 10%
Semester Final 60%
Total 100%

Syllabus and Curriculum: The Master of Laws (LLM) program is composed of 6 courses of 4 credits each and one mandatory thesis worth 8 credit, and viva-voce examination worth 2 credit in each semester amounting to 36 credit hours altogether. The total contact duration for a 4-credit course will be at least 60 class hours. Each course contains 100 Marks, viva voce 100 Marks each semester 50 marks and 200 Marks Thesis. This total of 600+200+50+50=900 marks will be translated into 36 credits. The curriculum of this LLM program is divided into 02 (Two) semesters. The selection of 3 courses in each semester will be depended upon the availability of the subject experts and confirmation of the Chairman of the Department of Law and Dean of the FSSS. The students will have to take the courses approved prior to the commencement of each semester. The thesis component will be registered in the first semester and continuously assessed till the end of second semester.

1st Semester

Objectives

  • • Reinterpret contemporary events against the backdrop of human rights history, development theories on human rights and their efficacy. • Investigate the relationship between domestic legal systems and international human rights law • Recognize the legal framework of the United Nations and regional systems relating to the protection and promotion. • Identify the different categories of human rights such as civil political rights, economic, social & cultural rights, rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, women’s rights and the emerging field of environmental rights. • Discover the key human rights challenges by using the lenses of the eminent human rights scholars’ thinkers, writers and practitioners.

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References

  • Books

Objectives

  • At the conclusion of this course, students who have attended lectures, read the course materials and done the assignments properly should have a basic appreciation of the practice of law, and be prepared to interpret and evaluate critically constitutional events and issues from a comparative perspective. It is expected that the students will acquire an ability to recognize important, relevant considerations over real-life issues and situations dealing with civil liberties and economic-social right. Throughout the course, the students will discuss the principal themes of the readings, and, thereby, understand the nature of constitutional conversations about rights and liberties in some selected countries. Students will learn the basics of comparative constitutional law, its methodologies and its practice in different jurisdictions.

Outcomes

  • At the conclusion of this course, students who have attended lectures, read the course materials and done the assignments properly should have a basic appreciation of the practice of law, and be prepared to interpret and evaluate critically constitutional events and issues from a comparative perspective. Students will learn the basics of comparative constitutional law, its methodologies and its practice in different jurisdictions with special focus on USA, India and Bangladesh. Students will learn about typologies of constitutions, constitutional models and identities and the status of constitution in comparative context. It is expected that the students will acquire an ability to recognize important, relevant considerations over real-life issues and situations dealing with civil liberties and economic-social right. Throughout the course, the students will discuss the principal themes of the readings, and, thereby, understand the nature of constitutional conversations about rights and liberties in some selected countries.

References

  • 1. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, Rosenfield and Saju, ed. Oxford University Press, 2013. 2. Comparative Constitutional law, Tom Ginsburg and Roslaind Dixon, ed., Edward Elger, USA, 2014 3. Comparative constitutional design, Ginsburg, Tom, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. 4. What's wrong with the British constitution ?, McLean, Iain, Oxford University Press, 2012. 5. The changing constitution, Jowell, Jeffrey; Oliver, Dawn, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011. 6. The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitutional Law, Sujit Chowdhury, ed., Oxford University Press, 2016. 7. Government Publication: The Constitution of The People’s Republic of Bangladesh. 8. Bangladesh Gono Parishoder Bitarka 9. Mahmudul Islam: Constitutional Law of Bangladesh, Second Edition, Mullick Brothers, Dhaka, 2002. 10. H. M Seervai: Constitutional Law of India, Universal Book Traders, Delhi, 2002.

Objectives

  • Law of International Organizations: Learning Objectives: At the end of this course, students should be proficient in the following subject areas and skills: being familiar with the historical development and the theoretical approaches related to international organisations law understanding the concept of international organisation, as well as those of the legal personality and legal capacities, under international and national law. - having knowledge of the global and regional systems - carrying out proper analysis on selected issues - performing legal research and writing in English in the area of international organisations law.

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2nd Semester

Objectives

  • International and Bangladesh laws relating to intellectual property;
  • Policy issues surrounding the competing interests of creators, owners and the public
  • Rationales, issues and debates about intellectual property protection
  • Substantive issues of intellectual property topics (e.g. copyright, patents, trademarks, confidential information, designs and geographical indications); and
  • Legal problem solving, involving intellectual property based hypothetical situations.

Outcomes

  • - Compare the international intellectual property law system and national intellectual property law systems
  • Evaluate the various mechanisms and procedures for intellectual property rights enforcement;
  • Demonstrate advanced learning, understanding and critical thinking in intellectual property; and
  • Identify legal issues, apply legal reasoning and reach arguable conclusions in response to a broad range of events that reflect real life scenarios.

References

  • Abbot Cottier Gurry: International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, 2nd edition (2008), Aspen Publishers, New York, USA
  • V K Ahuja: Law relating to Intellectual Property Rights Lexis NexisButterworhts, London (2007)
  • R K Nagaranhan: Intellectual Property Law, Allahabad Law Agency, India (2006)
  • Craig Allen Nard: The Law of Patents, USA (2010)
  • Merges, Robert P.; Menell, Peter S.; Lemley, Mark A. (2007). Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (4th rev. ed.). New York: Wolters Kluwer

Objectives

  • The aim of the course is to develop an understanding of family law issues in globalizing world. Core areas of family law will be looked at in a comparative perspective. This course offers students the opportunity to study the principles and policies underlying Muslim family law and other personal laws, at a level which is not possible in an undergraduate family law course. A comparative approach is adopted for most topics and the increasingly relevant international dimension in family law is also explored. It is an aim of the course that family law should be seen in its wider social context and students are encouraged to make use of materials other than the traditional statutory and judicial materials. The course is sufficiently flexible to allow attention to be given to issues of immediate relevance or particular topical interest. In the course the underlying values and policies of the respective legal rules will be examined and it will be asked whether they still suit a modern (and ever changing) society. It will be shown that in virtually all areas of family law there is a struggle between autonomy and state paternalism and between regulating social change and effecting social change, and that it is far from clear what the role of law in this struggle could or should be. Muslim Family Law bears the imprints of the juristic interpretations of different schools of thought. The course will consult in appropriate cases the primary sources of Islamic law in order to ascertain the shari’a laws and will examine relevant legislations and case laws in the modern world. There will be a detailed discussion about the opinions of different sects and schools on some selected issues in order to determine whether the applicable laws are consistent with the broader perspectives of Islam. The course would suggest ways to make existing laws gender friendly through rightly guided judicial activism. In that respect, an incisive analysis of the measures, different states have taken to reshape certain areas of Islamic family law through legislation or through judicial activism, will be made. The course will analyze certain important issues, like marriage stipulations, maintenance, dower and its waiver, guardianship of children and preferential gift, in the light of modern international human rights law on gender equality, which is representative of a current wave of research on gender sensitive interpretation of Muslim Family Laws. In essence, the course will be a sustained study of advocacy in support of progressive interpretations of different Family Laws.

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  • Explore fundamental underpinnings of international refugee laws such as its various sources, institutional development.
  • Investigate global refugee crisis from an alternative vision and cater knowledge how it can be better managed
  • Recognize the legal framework of forced migration, statelessness and emerging new issues on the right based narratives of refugee law.
  • Identify the multiple core concept of refugee protection such as assessment granting refugee status to asylum seekers, principle of non-refoulment, third party resettlement, international burden sharing principles, climate induced displacement, internally displaced persons and their protection etc
  • Discover the key human rights challenges by using the lenses of the eminent human rights scholars’ thinkers, writers and practitioners for this most vulnerable refugees, migrants and stateless persons.

Outcomes

  • Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of the various sources, institutions and procedures in the field of international refugee law
  • Apply understandings about the rights and responsibilities of different actors in the contemporary international refugee regime, including host states, states of origin, donors, humanitarian agencies.
  • Engage in critical legal analysis of the practice of judicial and other institutions
  • Carry out independent research in the field of refugee law and policy using both library-based and electronic resources.
  • Critically appraise the theoretical debates in the field

References

  • GUY S. GOODWIN-GILL and JANE McADAM, The Refugee in International Law (Oxford University Press: 3rd ed. 2007)
  • Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Access to Asylum: International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
  • B.S. Chimni (ed.), International Refugee Law: A Reader (Sage, 2000)

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