The following research projects explore judicial data in detail. If you would like to suggest more projects, let us know here.
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| Organisation | Title | Author(s) | Year | Resource type | Judicial Institution | Topics / Areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIDHI | A Study of Karnataka High Court’s Writ Jurisdiction | Deepika Kinhal, Alok Prasanna | 2018 | Report | High Court | Specific legislation |
| DAKSH | Access to Justice Survey Explorer | DAKSH | 2017 | Data explorer | Non-formal dispute resolution | Access to Justice |
| VIDHI | Back to Basics: A Call for Better Planning in the Judiciary | Shreya Tripathy, Chitrakshi Jain, Tarika Jain | 2020 | Report | All courts | Physical (or digital) Infrastructure |
| VIDHI | Budgeting Better for Courts- An evaluation of the Rs 7460 crores released under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Judicial Infrastructure | Chitrakshi Jain, Shreya Tripathy, Tarika Jain | 2019 | Report | All courts | Physical (or digital) Infrastructure |
| Agami, CDL | Budgets for Justice | Agami, CDL | 2022 | Data explorer | All courts | Budgets & Finance |
| VIDHI | Building Better Courts | Reshma Shekhar, Sumathi Chandrashekaran, Diksha Sanyal | 2019 | Report | All courts | Physical (or digital) Infrastructure |
| DAKSH | Calculating Judges' Strength in India | Arunav Kaul, Surya Prakash B.S., and Harish Narasappa. | 2020 | Report | All courts | Judges & Appointments |
| IIT-Delhi Center of Excellence for Law and Technology | CASE MANAGEMENT USING SIMULATION MODELING | Professor Shaurya Shriyam | 2021 | Report | District court | Court functioning and performance |
| IIT-Delhi Center of Excellence for Law and Technology | CHEQUE BOUNCE STUDY IN THE INDIAN COURT SYSTEM | Devendra Damle, Jitender Madaan, Karan Gulati, Manish Kumar Singh, and Nikhil Borwankar | 2022 | Report | District court | Court functioning and performance |
| VIDHI | Constitution Bench Pendency Project | VIDHI | 2022 | Data explorer | Supreme Court | Pendency, Delay & Backlog |
| VIDHI | Consultation Paper on the Supreme Court’s Burgeoning Backlog | Alok Prasanna, Ameen Jauhar, Faiza Rahman | 2015 | Report | Supreme Court | Pendency, Delay & Backlog |
| DAKSH | DAKSH High Court Data Portal | Writ Dashboard | DAKSH | 2022 | Data explorer | High Court | Court functioning and performance |
| VIDHI | Data Speak: A look at District Courts' performance during the pandemic | Shreya Tripathy, Atishya Kumar, Aditya Ranjan, Reshma Sekhar | 2022 | Report | District court | Court functioning and performance |
| CDL | Data Workshops: Working Effectively with Data | Apoorv Anand | 2022 | Learning resource | All courts | Data literacy and awareness |
| DAKSH | Deciphering Judicial Data: DAKSH's Database | DAKSH | 2018 | Whitepaper | District court | Data literacy and awareness |
| DAKSH | Decoding Delay: Analysis of Court Data (State of the Indian Judiciary) | Kishore Mandyam, Harish Narasappa, Ramya Sridhar Tirumalai, Kavya Murthy | 2014 | Report | District court | Pendency, Delay & Backlog |
| DAKSH | Deconstructing Delay: Analyses of Data from High Courts and Subordinate Courts (Approaches to Justice in India) | Arunav Kaul, Ahmed Pathan, Harish Narasappa | 2017 | Report | All courts | Pendency, Delay & Backlog |
| DAKSH | Delhi High Court Zero Pendency Project | Arunav Kaul, Gaurav Banerjee, Harish Narasappa, Leah Verghese, Ritwika Sharma, Surya Prakash B.S. and Ms. Arzoo Bedi | 2017 | Pilot project | High Court | Pendency, Delay & Backlog |
| DAKSH | Do the meek inherit the earth? A Study of Land Acquisition Litigation in Karnataka and Maharashtra | Pooja Murty, Ritwika Sharma, Leah Verghese | 2020 | Report | District court | Court functioning and performance |
| XKDR | Evaluating contract enforcement by courts in India: a litigant's lens | Bhargavi Zaveri Shah, Susan Thomas, Pavithra Manivannan | 2022 | All courts | Court functioning and performance | |
| XKDR | How did courts respond to the pandemic lockdowns: evidence from the NCLT | Pavithra Manivannan, Susan Thomas, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah | 2022 | Article | NCLT | Courts adaptation to & during COVID-19 pandemic |
| IJR | India Justice Report (2019) | Subrat Das, Asadullah, Nupur, Akhilesh Patil, Radhika Jha, Devika Prasad, Devyani Srivastava, Madhurima Dhanuka, Sugandha Mathur, Shruthi Naik, Leah Verghese, Prof. Vijay Raghavan, Ameen Jauhar, Diksha Sanyal, Gangadhar Patil | 2019 | Report | All courts | Court functioning and performance |
| IJR | India Justice Report (2020) | Nupur, Radhika Jha, Devika Prasad, Devyani Srivastava, Madhurima Dhanuka, Sugandha Mathur, Shruthi Naik, Leah Verghese, Prof. Vijay Raghavan, Ameen Jauhar, Chitrakshi Jain, Lakhwinder Kaur, Niyati Singh | 2020 | Report | All courts | Court functioning and performance |
| VIDHI | Inefficiency and Judicial Delay: New Insights from the Delhi High Court | Nitika Khaitan, Shalini Seetharam, Sumathi Chandrashekaran | 2017 | Report | High Court | Pendency, Delay & Backlog |
| Development Data Lab | Judicial Data Portal | Elliot Ash and Sam Asher, Aditi Bhowmick, Sandeep Bhupatiraju, Daniel Chen,Tanaya Devi, Chritoph Goessmann, Paul Novosad, Bilal Siddiqi | 2021 | Data repository | District court | Court functioning and performance |
| DAKSH | Judicial Data Regulation: Discussion Paper. Balancing Open Courts with the Right to Privacy - An Indian Perspective | Aakanksha Mishra, Siddharth Mandrekar Rao. | 2021 | Whitepaper | All courts | Court functioning and performance |
| CDL | Justice Hub | Juctice Hub | 2021 | Data repository | All courts | Data literacy and awareness |
| VIDHI | Law in Numbers: Towards an evidence based approach for legal reform | Ajey Sangai, Akriti Gaur, Alok Prasanna, Ameen Jauhar, Arghya Sengupta, David Staunton, Debadityo Sinha, Debanshu Mukherjee, Dhvani Mehta, Joyjayanti Chatterjee, Kaushiki Sanyal, Medha Srivastava, Neha Singhal, Nivedita Saksena, Ritwika Sharma, Sakshi, Shohini Sengupta, Shreya Garg, Shreya Prakash, Shruti Ambast, Sreenidhi Srinivasan, Srijoni Sen, Yashaswini Mittal | 2016 | Report | All courts | Judicial Reforms |
| DAKSH & VIDHI | Litigation landscape of Bengaluru: Series 1: Bengaluru Rural Courts | Deepika Kinhal, Shruthi Naik, Akhileshwari Reddy, Arunav Kaul, Surya Prakash B.S., Alok Prasanna Kumar | 2019 | Report | District court | Court functioning and performance |
| XKDR | Measuring court output in the pandemic: evidence from India's largest commercial tribunal | Anjali Sharma, Bhargavi Zaveri | 2020 | Article | NCLT | Courts adaptation to & during COVID-19 pandemic |
| CBGA & DAKSH | Memo to Fifteenth Finance Commission | CBGA and DAKSH | 2018 | Memo | All courts | Budgets & Finance |
| Agami & Thoughtworks | OpennyAI | Agami and Thoughtworks | 2022 | Data explorer | All courts | AI in the Judiciary |
| NIPFP | Problems with the eCourts data | Devendra Damle, Tushar Anand | 2020 | Whitepaper | All courts | Data literacy and awareness |
| VIDHI | Report on Ranking Lower Judiciary Appointments | Diksha Sanyal, Nikita Khaitan, Shalini Seetharam, Shriyam Gupta | 2017 | Report | District court | Judges & Appointments |
| VIDHI | Supreme Court’s Caseload During COVID-19 (April 2020): A Look at the Numbers | Shreya Tripathy, Tarika Jain | 2020 | Report | Supreme Court | Courts adaptation to & during COVID-19 pandemic |
| VIDHI | The Delhi High Court Roster Review: A Step Towards Judicial Performance Evaluation | Vaidehi Mishra, Satishwar Kedas | 2021 | Report | High Court | Court functioning and performance |
| DAKSH | Time and Motion Study of Four District and Sessions Courts in Bangalore, Karnataka | DAKSH | 2016 | Report | District court | Court functioning and performance |
| IIT-Delhi Center of Excellence for Law and Technology | UI/UX EVALUATION OF INDIAN HIGH COURT WEBSITES | Vankar Jayminbhai Kanubhai, Shruthi Naik, Prof. Nomesh Bolia | 2021 | Report | High Court | Digital access to courts (websites, mobile apps, tools, etc) |
| CDL | Unpacking Judicial Data to Track Implementation of the POCSO Act in Assam, Delhi & Haryana | CDL | 2021 | Report | District court | Specific legislation |
| CDL | Zombie Tracker | Abhinav Kumar, Apoorv Anand, Gaurav Godhwani | 2021 | Data explorer | District court | Specific legislation |
| VIDHI | Breaking through the Old Boys’ Club: The Rise of Women in the Lower Judiciary | Sumathi Chandrasekaran, Diksha Sanyal, Tarika Jain, Shreya Tripathy | 2020 | Article | District court | Diversity (gender, socioeconomic, religion, caste, etc) |
| VIDHI | A Decade of POCSO: Developments, Challenges and Insights from Judicial Data | Apoorva, Aditya Ranjan, Sandeep Bhupatiraju, Shareen Joshi, Daniel L. Chen | 2022 | Report | District court | Specific legislation |