Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia)

Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia)




The Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia) is an international standard, free-access and non-profit, comprehensive online collection of Indian legal information which 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, and Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur) in partnership with AustLII.
The LII of India currently contains 151 databases including:

•  legislation (the India Code from 1836, some State legislation, and commentary on legislation),
• Indian case law (over 300,000 cases in full text from the Supreme Court, most High Courts, and tribunals),
• treaties (all India treaties to 1975, plus many subsequent bilateral treaties),
• law reform reports (from the Law Commission),
• legal scholarship (six law journals to date, with scholarship repositories, books and judicial scholarship still to be developed),
• cases concerning India in International Courts and Tribunals, and
• cases concerning India from the pre-1873 English Reports.

Recent updates and additions include:

• cases from the High Court of Calcutta (Appellate Side) 2003- and High Court of Calcutta Port Blair Bench 2008-
• the NALSAR Media Law Review 2010- and NALSAR Environmental Law and Practice Review 2011-
• the Indian Journal of Law and Economics 2010-
• 29 State and Territory Schemes databases and
• West Bengal Acts 1848-

Three new Partner Institutions have joined LII of India: Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU); Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University, Chennai (TNDALU); and Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala (RGNUL)