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Elective course · Semester 10 · Fifth Year · 4 credits

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Syllabus for Law Relating to Women and Children

Elective course · Semester 10 · Fifth Year · 4 credits

Module I: Social, Constitutional and International legal status of Women.

  • 1.1.Status of Women in India- Pre-Independence period, Social and legal inequality, Social
  • Reform Movement in India, Karachi Congress , Fundamental Rights Resolution, Equality of Sexes
  • 1.2Constitution of India and Women- Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy, Reservation for women in local bodies ,
  • 1.3 Personal Laws relating to marriage, divorce, succession and maintenance with special emphasis on discrimination of women, Uniform Civil Code towards gender justice, Special Marriage Act, 1954
  • 1.4 Criminal Laws and Women:
  • Provisions to protect women under Indian Penal Code 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure,
  • 1973 and Indian Evidence Act, 1872
  • 1.5 Position of Women under International instruments - Salient features of Convention for Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and optional protocols to the Convention

Module II: Women Welfare Laws

  • 2.1Pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act,
  • 1994 and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971
  • 2.2 Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986
  • 2.3 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013
  • 2.4 Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
  • 2.5 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
  • 2.6 Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
  • 2.7 Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 and Factories Act, 1948
  • 2.8 National Commission for Women Act, 1990

Module III: Social, Constitutional and International legal status of Child

  • 3.1- Socio Legal Issues
  • Deferred infanticide through biased nutritional discrimination, Regulation of the employment; Child Labour, Recommendations of the National Commission of Labour, Female Foeticide
  • 3.2 Constitutional concern – Article 15(3), Article 21A, Articles 23, 24, 28, 29 Article 39 (e) and (f)and Article 45, Article 243(G) Schedule XI, Article 350A State responsibility for the education of children, Constitutional safeguards to Children
  • 3.3 Safeguards under Indian Penal Code, 1860, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, Tort law, Contract law and partnership law 3.3International concern and endeavour for the welfare of the Children:
  • Minimum Age Convention, 1973
  • U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959
  • Role of UNESCO, UNICEF and ILO
  • UN Convention on Rights of a Child, 1989

Module IV: Special Legislation for the Protection of Children

  • 4.1 Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
  • 4.2 The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
  • 4.3 National Food Security Act, 2013
  • 4.4 , Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986
  • 4.5 Commissions for the Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005
  • 4.6 Young Persons Harmful Publications Act, 1956 –
  • 4.7 Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
  • 4.8 Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959

Recommended Readings

  • 1 S.P. Sathe: Towards Gender Justice.
  • 2 Dr. Vijay Sharma: Protection to woman in Matrimonial home
  • 3 Dr. Sarojini Saxena: Femijuris(Law relating to Women in India)
  • 4 Dr. Archana Parsher: Women and Social Reform
  • 5 Dr. Paras Diwan: Dowry and protection to married women
  • 6 Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the rights of women.
  • 7 Dr. G.B.Reddy: Women and Law, 2nd Edn. Gogia Law Agency, Hyderabad, 1998.
  • 8 Dr. Anjali Hastak, Empowerment of women through Property Rights in Hindu Law, SPARC publication, Chandrapur
  • 9 Flavia Agnes – Law and Gender inequality
  • 10 Ajit Ray – Widows are not for burning
  • 11 A.S.Altekar – Position of Women in Hindu Civilization
  • 12 Flavia Agnes – State, Gender and Rhetorics of Law of Reforms
  • 13 S.N.Jain (Ed) – Child and the Law (ILI)
  • 14 Asha Bajpai – Child Rights in India: Law, Policy and Practice.Oxford 2003 New Delhi.
  • 15 Encyclopaedia of Laws of the Child in India. S.P.Shaw. Alia Law Agency

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai Revised Syllabus for LL.B. (5 years) Five Years Integrated Course (CBCS), in force from the academic year 2022-23 and amended in June 2023. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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