Dr. Sushant Sinha, founder of Indian Kanoon, has been profiled by the Indian legal news source Bar and Bench, in Raghul Sudheesh’s article entitled Indian Kanoon: Bar & Bench talks to the mind behind Indian Legal Google (27 June 2012).
This article describes Dr. Sinha’s biography and education; his development of Indian Kanoon, a free legal search engine for India; the Indian legal information market; Dr. Sinha’s future plans for Indian Kanoon; and the role of Indian Kanoon in India’s democracy.
Sudeesh writes:
[Dr. Sinha] highlighted the role of law in our daily lives and said that his primary goal was to enhance people’s involvement and participation in the legal process.
For more information, please see the complete article.
For more information on Indian Kanoon, please see Dr. Sinha’s VoxPopuLII post entitled Indian Kanoon: The Genesis and the Legal Thirst; and my Slaw.ca post entitled Indian Kanoon: Sushant Sinha on Innovation and Free Law in India.
Filed under: Profiles Tagged: Bar and Bench, Free access to law, Indian Kanoon, Public access to legal information, Sushant Sinha