CCL213 | Cyber Crimes and Cyber Laws of India

Though an elective Seminar Course, this course is on a crucial domain of law that is fast expanding its horizon, dealing with mechanism adopted to check the abuse of cyber technology. The Ministry of IT and UGC have been insisting for teaching cyber law and cyber security courses in universities. Additionally, the Cyber Law Centre at NLSIU has been contributing in its own way towards mainstreaming cyber law related courses teaching and this course is one of those approaches adopted by the centre.

The course will focus on understanding primarily legal aspects related by cyber laws and cybercrimes and whenever necessary on cyber forensic aspects. Indian Information Technology Act along with certain criminal laws will be analysed in detail to understand the law framework in this regard. Additionally judicial decisions on issues related to cyber law and cyber space will be relied upon to understand the effectiveness of law as well as the scope of the law.

The Pedagogy to be adopted for teaching will be a combination of lecture, Socratic discussion, and seminar style discussion methods, depending upon the suitability of the method with respect to the concerned topic.