Government platforms · India
Tele-Law is a free Government of India service that connects you to a panel lawyer by video or phone for advice before you ever file a case, and Nyaya Bandhu is its pro bono arm for people who then need someone to represent them. It was…
Government platforms · India
The Parliament Digital Library, run by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, lets anyone read digitised parliamentary debates going back to 1854, and it is free, but the items carry a copyright notice, so reading is open and reuse is not. Imagine…
Government platforms · India
Shodhganga is the national open-access repository of Indian PhD theses, hosted by the INFLIBNET Centre, and anyone can read it without paying or registering. Universities were required by a UGC regulation to submit electronic copies of…
Non-profit and independent platforms · India
Nyaaya is a free, open-access website that explains Indian law in plain language, and it is run by a non-profit think tank, not by the government. It was conceived by Rohini Nilekani and incubated at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, and…
Non-profit and independent platforms · India
The Supreme Court Observer is a free, independent legal journalism site that reports on the Supreme Court of India and keeps the documents behind the story. It was conceived in 2016 by Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy, and it follows a chosen set…
Non-profit and independent platforms · India
The India Justice Report is a free, collaboratively produced ranking of Indian states on how well they deliver justice, and it is built from government data. Tata Trusts started it in partnership with the Centre for Social Justice, Common…
Non-profit and independent platforms · India
OpenNyAI is an open-source mission that builds free tools, datasets and AI models so developers can create justice applications for India. It was created in 2021 by Agami, with EkStep, Thoughtworks, the National Law School of India…
Thematic and cross-border databases · International
Constitute is a free website where you can read, search and compare nearly every national constitution in force, and it comes from a university research project, not from any government. The Comparative Constitutions Project at the…
Thematic and cross-border databases · International
ECOLEX is a free global gateway to environmental law, run jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the IUCN and the UN Environment Programme since 2001. It merges the holdings of three libraries into one portal covering treaties,…
Thematic and cross-border databases · International
Climate Change Laws of the World is a free database of national climate laws, policies and related litigation, maintained by the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics together with the Sabin Center for Climate…