Law and Justice in a Globalising World

This course is a course on applied justice. The law is an ongoing process in society. Through various legal theories, we understand and analyze the concept of law. Through this course, they will inquire and investigate law’s relationship to other political, economic and social institutions. We use law as a lens to better understand the society they live in. With the changes in the society, law is the best tool to understand the societal phenomena such as political movements, discriminatory practices etc. Justice is the outcome when the law is applied. In this course, we try and understand the relationship between law and justice. The debate on law and justice is an age old debate which is being increasingly interrogative in the contemporary times with the advent of globalisation. Globalisation is a complex process which is making the world more interdependent. Globalisation has stimulated a revival of debates about law and justice. This course will explore the challenges of globalisation to social, political and economic perspectives on law and justice. Globalisation has stimulated rethinking in several fields, especially in law and justice and the impact of globalisation is pervasive. In recent times, words like ‘global’, ‘globalisation’ and ‘globalism’ have entered common parlance in law as well as in other disciplines. This course will also consider the diffusion of law from a global perspective and the spread of legal ideas all over the world. In contemporary times, as the societies are witnessing rapid growth, there is an increasing debate about the concept of Law and Justice. These developments have the potential to impact the modern legal thought and all forms of governance.