UGC NET LAW (058) · UNIT 01 · REVISION
Jurisprudence Rapid-Recall Sheet
Each line is a typical direct-recall item. Use it in the last days of revision, after you have read the topics and the exam traps.
- 33 high-yield facts
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High-yield facts
| Item | Key fact |
|---|---|
| Austin | Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832); Command, sanction, sovereign |
| Bentham | Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789); Utility; panopticon; codification |
| Savigny | Vocation of Our Age (1814); Volksgeist |
| Maine | Ancient Law (1861); Status to contract |
| Ihering | Law as a Means to an End; Struggle for Law; Social purpose; interests |
| Ehrlich | Fundamental Principles of the Sociology of Law (1913); Living law |
| Duguit | Law in the Modern State; Social solidarity |
| Pound | Scope and Purpose of Sociological Jurisprudence; Social engineering; interests |
| Holmes | 'The Path of the Law' (1897); Bad man; prediction |
| Llewellyn | The Bramble Bush (1930); Rule scepticism |
| Frank | Law and the Modern Mind (1930); Fact scepticism |
| Kelsen | Pure Theory of Law; General Theory of Law and State (1945); Grundnorm |
| Hart | The Concept of Law (1961); Primary and secondary rules |
| Fuller | The Morality of Law (1964); Eight desiderata |
| Dworkin | Taking Rights Seriously (1977); Law's Empire (1986); Principles; integrity |
| Raz | The Authority of Law (1979); Exclusive positivism |
| Finnis | Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980); Basic goods |
| Hohfeld | Fundamental Legal Conceptions (1913, 1917); Eight jural relations |
| Honore | 'Ownership' (1961); Eleven incidents |
| Rawls | A Theory of Justice (1971); Original position; difference principle |
| Sen | Development as Freedom (1999); The Idea of Justice (2009); Capabilities; niti and nyaya |
| Nussbaum | Frontiers of Justice (2006); Ten central capabilities |
| Pogge | World Poverty and Human Rights (2002); Global resource dividend |
| Lyotard | The Postmodern Condition (1979); Incredulity towards metanarratives |
| Foucault | Discipline and Punish (1975); Power/knowledge |
| Derrida | 'Force of Law' (1990); Deconstruction; justice undeconstructible |
| MacKinnon | Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989); Dominance approach |
| Sources and precedent | Bengal Immunity (1955), Keshav Mills (1965), Golak Nath (1967, prospective overruling), Dawoodi Bohra (2005), Collector of Madura (1868, custom) |
| Legal personality | Salomon (1897), Pramatha Nath Mullick (1925, idol), Som Nath Dass (2000, Guru Granth Sahib), Mohd. Salim (2017, rivers), A. Nagaraja (2014, animals), Narayan Dutt Bhatt (2018) |
| Law and morality | Naz Foundation (2009), Koushal (2013), Navtej Johar (2018), Joseph Shine (2018), Puttaswamy (2017), Sabarimala (2018), Aveek Sarkar (2014), Common Cause (2018) |
| Liability | Rylands v Fletcher (1868), M.C. Mehta (1987, absolute liability), Vellore Citizens (1996), Kasturi Lal (1965), Nilabati Behera (1993), Bachan Singh (1980) |
| Possession and property | Armory v Delamirie (1722), Bridges v Hawkesworth (1851), South Staffordshire v Sharman (1896), I.R. Coelho (2007) |
| Poverty and development | Hussainara Khatoon (1979), Asiad (1982), Olga Tellis (1985), PUCL (2001), Janhit Abhiyan (2022) |
Where each fact is explained
Open the topic for the concept behind any line you cannot recall.
- 0 How to Use These Notes and What the Exam Looks Like
- 1 Nature and Sources of Law
- 2 Schools of Jurisprudence
- 3 Law and Morality
- 4 Concept of Rights and Duties
- 5 Legal Personality
- 6 Concepts of Property, Ownership and Possession
- 7 Concept of Liability
- 8 Law, Poverty and Development
- 9 Global Justice
- 10 Modernism and Post-Modernism
- 11 Final Revision: Thinkers, Cases and Exam-Day Strategies
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