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Clear explanations of Indian law, written for students: concepts, provisions and the cases that shaped them.
A worker may grow old, fall sick, get injured at work, lose the job or die, and a woman worker may have a baby; in each case the family income stops. Social security is the help society gives at such times so that the family does not fall into poverty – a safety net under the worker.
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The law of transfer of property is covered in twelve units, from the basic question of what property is to the special rules that apply when a person living outside India buys or sells property in India. Buying a flat, taking a home loan, renting a shop, gifting land to children and signing an…
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Public International Law is studied in seven units: from how a law between nations was born to how a new State or government is accepted by other States. Rules made between States work quietly in daily life, when a parcel is sent abroad, a flight goes to Singapore, or fish is caught in the Indian…
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Jurisprudence covers the whole range of legal theory, from the first question (why study this subject at all) to the latest debates on justice, gender and the Indian Constitution.
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Human Rights Law runs, across six units, from what makes a right a human right to newer issues such as artificial intelligence, corruption, business power, and the rights of transgender persons and prisoners. Human rights are engaged whenever a person speaks out, visits a government hospital…
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Gender and Law is studied in six units, from what gender is and how the State has used it, to how stereotypes about women and men shape the reasoning of courts. Gender is not a subject only about women: it quietly decides who cooks at home, who gets the job, who is believed at the police station…
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Energy Law runs from why energy needs law at all to how the law is guiding India from coal and oil towards clean energy. Switching on a fan, charging a phone, riding a bus or cooking on a gas stove puts a person at the end of a long chain made of laws, licences and regulators; connecting each rule…
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The subject covers the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, together with the Limitation Act: from how the Code began to how time can make a trespasser an owner. Whenever a tenant refuses to leave, a buyer wants his money back, or two brothers quarrel over the family house, this Code carries the dispute…
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Corporate Insolvency Law is studied in seven units: from what happens when a company cannot pay its debts to what happens when such a company has assets and creditors in many countries. Every bank loan to a business, every supplier selling on credit and every family booking a flat with a builder…
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Contract Law I runs from the first question, what a contract is, to the newest one, how contracts are made on the internet. Contracts are made every day: buying a cup of tea, booking a cab or renting a room. Connecting every rule to such everyday transactions is the easiest way to understand and re…
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A judge must decide, months or years later, what happened in an incident the judge never saw. The only way is through evidence, the bridge between the past event and the present courtroom. The Law of Evidence decides which planks can build that bridge, and how strong it must be before the court…
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Contract Law II has six units, from indemnity to how these rules work for governments and consumers. These contracts arise daily: handing car keys to a valet, pledging gold for a loan, buying a phone, starting a business with a friend. Connecting each rule to such situations aids understanding and…
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