The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) is now open? for public access at, prior to its formal launch in India in early 2011 writes Graham Greenleaf
Here’s the url if you want to have a look
We learn the following from the press release:
LII of India at present has 50 databases, including over 300,000? decisions from 37 Courts and Tribunals, Indian national legislation? from 1836, over 800 bilateral treaties, law reform reports and about? 500 law journal articles. The LawCite citator tracks case and journal? article citations. Further case law, and State and Territory? legislation, will be added by the time of the formal launch.
LII of India has been developed through cooperation between four? leading Indian Law Schools
NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad;?
National Law School of India University, Bangalore;?
National Law? University, Delhi,
Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur)
in partnership with? AustLII.
The technical hub of the project will be NALSAR in? Hyderabad, with initial development and ongoing support from AustLII.
Prof VC Vivekanandan of NALSAR is the Director. Funding support has? been provided primarily by AusAid, with additional support from the? Australian Research Council and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
There is an outline of the project at? http://liiofindia.org/liiofindia/brochure.pdf
and a User Guide at? http://liiofindia.org/liiofindia/guide/current.pdf
Many system? features will be familiar to users of AustLII, WorldLII etc.
Greenleaf finishes by saying
We trust that you will find the LII of India a valuable addition to? global free access to law resources. Feedback is of course always? welcome.
If you would like to suggest additional resources that we could? include in LII of India, please let me know.