Research activities

The Centre received a fund of Rs. 14,41,000/- in order to carry out a study whose primary objective was to assess the knowledge, awareness and attitude of women internet users with regards to cyber-crimes and to check the effectiveness of the current legal framework for safety of women in the cyber space.

The EURO-EXPERT Project, headed by Prof. Livia Holden, is a research project that looks at use of cultural arguments in connection with rights, more broadly considered as including all kinds of minorities, indigenous people, and cultural heritage in a great variety of cases ranging from criminal law to civil law.

The Centre in collaboration with Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is creating an e-repository to document the mechanisms for providing legal aid for persons in police custody (LAPPC) on paper– in the form of frameworks / rules / procedures.

The Police Custody Deaths Monitor is CHRI’s police reform programme’s initiative to document deaths in police custody in India.

The Centre has proposed two events to the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia as part of the Strategic Collaborative Fund Phase 2 (SCF2) programme, launched by SEI Asia, with support from the Swedish government (SIDA).

In collaboration with We Innovate, a policy foundation headed by Advocate Aaditya Bhatt of the Gujarat High Court. This research project focuses on the legal issues and compliances encountered by startups, including tax & GST compliances, contracts to be entered into, and business structure' specific compliances.

GCLS has partnered with the Institute for Internet and Just Society for ‘Project Aristotle - A Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy Clinic’. The Institute is youth-led pro bono think tank based in Berlin, Germany.

The Centre proposed three events to the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia as part of the call for concept notes on ‘climate-resilient practices to promote inclusive and sustainable agricultural systems and value chains’ in the Strategic Collaborative Fund 2 (SCF2) programme.

In a landmark collaboration between the Centre for Law & Society at Gujarat National Law University and Samford University's Centre for Children, Law, and Ethics, a pioneering research initiative is presently underway.

The Centre for Law & Society has forged a meaningful collaboration with DAKSH, a prominent non-profit organization based in Bangalore that is dedicated to Access to Justice and Judicial Reforms for the Justice Definitions Project.

GNLU Centre for Law and Society (GCLS) collaborated with The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), an Indian digital liberties organization, ensuring that technology respects fundamental rights and that Indian citizens can use the Internet with liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.