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Writer's pictureHarshil Vijayvargiya
Nov 83 min read

Important Topics for Legal Reasoning - CLAT 2025

To kill it in legal section of CLAT, you need 3 things –

1.      Knowledge about basic laws

2.      Awareness about latest legal happenings in India and the world (Legal GK), and finally,

3.      Lots of practice

I will write an article about Legal GK soon, and I have already made a lot of videos around solving legal questions. In this article I give you important topics you should study for Legal section.


Constitutional Law: 

  • What is constitution 

  • What are fundamental rights 

  • Directive Principles of State Policy

  • Judicial bodies - Supreme court, High Court, District courts

  • Quasi-Judicial bodies – Tribunals

  • Writs, Rights and duties

  • Elections to President, Vice-President, legislative assembly, etc

  • Important acts like Panchayati Raj, Emergency powers, etc


Law of Contracts -

  • Nature of contracts and formation

  • Void and illegal, unenforceable contracts 

  • Quasi-contracts

  • Discharge of contracts

  • Guarantee and insurance

  • Consequences of breach of contracts

  • Agency contract etc


Torts – 

  • Definitions

  • Liability, strict and absolute liability, different types of liability

  • Joint tortfeasors

  • Remedies, Negligence, Defamation

  • Conspiracy

  • False imprisonment and malicious prosecution

  • General principles of criminal law

  • Punishments and exceptions



Criminal Law - 

In criminal law, there are multiple topics you need to study -


General Principles of Criminal Law (these are general concepts you need to understand before proceeding ahead)


  • Definition and elements of crime

  • Essential elements: actus reus (guilty act) and mens rea (guilty mind)

  • Stages of crime: intention, preparation, attempt, and commission

  • Presumptions of innocence and burden of proof

Indian Penal Code -

  • Structure and basic provisions of IPC

  • Offenses against the human body (e.g., homicide, assault, and hurt)

  • Offenses against property (e.g., theft, robbery, extortion)

  • Offenses against women (e.g., rape, dowry death, domestic violence)

  • Defamation (Section 499 and 500)

  • Criminal conspiracy (Section 120A and 120B)

Criminal Procedure Code -

  • FIR (First Information Report) – the basics

  • Bail – the basics  

  • Compounding of offenses and plea bargaining – meaning

Basics of other criminal laws –

  • Juvenile Justice Act

  • Prevention Of Corruption Act

  • Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act

  • Domestic Violence Act

  • Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act


Intellectual Property Law: 

  • Concepts of Trademarks, 

  • Patents, 

  • Copyrights, and 

  • other IP-related laws.


Civil Law: 

  • Questions on Code of Civil Procedure, 

  • Property Law, 


Basics of Family Law: 

Questions on Hindu, Muslim, and other Personal Laws


International law – 

This is a topic where you need to just have basic understanding

  • Major international bodies like the UN, WTO, IMF, World Bank etc 

  • Knowledge of few case laws such as – Dalai Lama Asylum case, SS Lotus case. These are not required but in case you have time you can study. Would take few minutes only.

  • International treaties

  • Sources of international law – the basics

  • Law of the sea – the basics

  • State recognition


I will keep on updating this list. At last, if you are preparing for CLAT 2026 OR 2027, you can check out my CLAT course.

This course contains all you require in 3 subjects - English, Critical Reasoning & Law.

Apart from this we have a strategy module and a habit-building module as well which provide you the necessary guidance to crack CLAT.


At last we have weekly classes as well which ensure you get the required practise.

I suggest checking out the course here - https://learn.whysolegal.com/



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