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About the workshop

The judicial system in India is under tremendous pressure. As of May 2022, over 4.7 crore cases are pending in courts across different levels of the judiciary. Advances in digital technology have made it possible to store and retrieve huge repository of legal documents. Apart from the size of data, the inherent complexity of legal domain demand better and more sophisticated methods to process legal documents to satisfy the information need of legal practitioners thereby improving the efficiency of all components of justice delivery system. This workshop focuses on challenges to build data science based legal decision support systems to improve the efficiency of legal practitioners, judges and the other stakeholders involved in the justice delivery.

Scope

There is a scope to exploit the latest data science technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning, for better retrieval of all kinds of legal data to improve the performance of the stakeholders of justice delivery in India.  The objective of workshop is to bring researchers who are working on the topics of data science  and legal domain together and carry out exchange regarding building systems to improve quality and scalability of legal information systems. The workshop will also bring together researchers and practitioners in legal studies and data analytics who are interested in legal information retrieval to improve the efficiency of stakeholders in legal domain.

Program

Session Event
08.30 - 10.00 Registration and networking
10.00 - 12.30 Round table discussion (Click here to know more)

Radhakrishna Krishna Chahavan, Judge, Sanga Reddy District
Satyanarayana, Additional PP, Director of Prosecutions, Telangana
Bhaskar Poluri, Advocate, Hyderabad

K.V.K.Santhy, NALSAR University of Law
G. Mallikarjun, NALSAR University of Law
D Bala Krishna, NALSAR University of Law

P.Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad
Vikram Pudi, IIIT Hyderabad
Manish Srivastava IIIT Hyderabad
Radhika Mamidi, IIIT Hyderabad

Apala Das, NALSAR University of Law
Narendra Babu, IIIT Hyderabad
Bhoomeendra Singh Sisodiya, IIIT Hyderabad

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30 Research presentations

1. Scrutinizing the Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Landscape, Pooja Harde (National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra), Sarika Jain (National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra)

2. Manupatra: An Online Database for Legal Research, by Sandeep Bathuka, (Manupatra Information Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)

3. Exploring paragraph-level similarity for legal information search, by Bhoomeendra (IIIT Hyderabad), Narendra Babu (IIIT Hyderabad).
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 17.30 Way Forward (Click here to know more)

P.Krishna Reddy (IIIT Hyderabad), K.V.K.Santhy (NALSAR University of Law)

Organisation

Committees

Honorary Chairs

- Srikrishna Deva Rao, Vice-chancellor, NALSAR University of Law, Telangana State, India 
- P.J.Narayanan, Director, IIIT Hyderabad, Telangana State, India

Workshop Chairs

- P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, Telangana State, India
- K.V.K. Santhy, NALSAR University of Law, Telangana State,  India

Advisory Commitee

- Anirban Mondal, Ashoka University, Sonipat, India
- Mukesh Mohania, IIIT Delhi, Delhi, India
- Girish Agrawal,O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India
- V. Balakista Reddy, NALSAR University of Law, Telangana State, India