Research & Projects

law + design thinking for enabling access to justice

We are a law and design social enterprise bringing together innovators, legal and development practitioners, technologists, designers, activists, academics and students to produce solutions to make conversations about justice more accessible to citizens. More details are here: https://www.justiceadda.com/

economics of legal aid

The Economics of Legal Aid Group is an interdisciplinary collaboration of lawyers and economists, based at the National Law School of India University and the London School of Economics. We aim to study the provision and financing of legal aid to better understand the depth of the justice gap in India. More details are here: economics-of-legal-aid.com

empirical analysis of Productivity in india's district courts

We conduct a novel, in-depth, quantitative investigation of more than 1700 district courts across India between 2010 and 2018 to measure court productivity through the metric of case disposal, specifically the median number of days it takes for a district court in India to decide a case. Our aim is to understand the impact of well established factors like working strength and tenure of judges, case administration, age distribution of cases, and category or case type on this measure of court productivity.

Knocking on closed doors: India's challenges in accessing legal services

This project examines the difficulties that Indians face in accessing a lawyer for their unmet legal needs. We look at lawyer advertising platforms in the country and evaluate whether these can improve the flow of information about the quality and reach of legal advice provided by Indian lawyers. We suggest measures that the professional regulator of the legal profession in India and the role that the legal services market could take to ease the costs of accessing lawyers in India.

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