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Government platforms · India

The Parliament Digital Library: free to read, not free to copy

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…

Non-profit and independent platforms · India

Nyaaya: India's everyday laws, explained without the jargon

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: a living archive of one court's work

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

OpenNyAI: free software and models for reading Indian court judgments

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: the world's constitutions, side by side

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: environmental law from three UN-linked bodies, in one search box

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: every country's climate rulebook

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…