Case backlogs have been a persistent issue for the Indian judiciary. To resolve it, AI-powered technologies—including Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Predictive Analytics are now being leveraged to automate administrative tasks, improve case tracking, and enhance crime prevention.
The Government of India has allocated a total of ₹7210 Crore for the e-Courts Phase III project for judicial digital transformation. Within this budget, ₹53.57 Crore is specifically earmarked for the integration of AI and Blockchain technologies across High Courts in India.
This deployment of AI is not limited to the judiciary, but top-tier law firms in the country have also adapted AI tools for routine work. AI has changed workflows by streamlining research, drafting, and due diligence while raising important questions around ethics, bias, and the future of legal education.
To keep up with these developments, law schools need to update their curricula with AI integration to ensure students remain employable. Some institutes have taken initial steps towards AI teaching and learning. In the long run, though, institutes will need to provide students with practical, hands-on exposure to AI tools.
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Students need to be taught to adapt to technology while preserving the core principles of legal education. They need to sharpen their critical assessment skills to verify AI-generated content, check legal citations, and ensure jurisdictional relevance.
To discuss how this change can be brought forth, The Hindu will host a webinar titled ‘Gamechanger: Teaching AI to law students, lawyers’, on July 5 at 5:00 p.m. The panellists include Shouvik Kumar Guha, Associate Professor, NUJS; Sonam Chandwani, Managing Partner, KS Legal & Associates; Rohit Sharma, Founder, Law Firm Ready. The webinar will be moderated by Ravina Warkad, who works at the education vertical of The Hindu.
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Panellists
Shouvik Kumar Guha, Associate Professor, NUJS
Shouvik Kumar Guha is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Law and Technology at The West Bengal National university of Juridical Sciences (NUJS). He is also the Founding Director of the Centre for Law, Literature and Popular Culture, the Associate Director of the Centre for Aviation and Space Laws, and the Assistant Director of the Centre for Financial and Regulatory Governance Studies, the Centre for Competition Laws and Centre for Law and Technology at NUJS. He is also a TEDx speaker, a Senior Research Fellow (Non-Resident) at the Vidhi Centre for Law and Policy, Associate Research Fellow (Non-Resident) at the Centre for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CeRAI), IIT Madras, a Visiting Faculty at the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur, and at the Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak, as well as an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI) of TCG Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology (TCG CREST).
Sonam Chandwani, Managing Partner, KS Legal & Associates
Sonam Chandwani is the Managing Partner at KS Legal & Associates and heads the firm’s Corporate Litigation Practice. She specialises in commercial structures, commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions generally, with an emphasis on large-scale and complex commercial litigation including contract law, trade practices, real estate disputes and finance issues across a range of industry sectors. She advises on insolvency matters and her expertise covers all forms of dispute resolution, arbitration and mediation.
Rohit Sharma, Founder, Law Firm Ready
Rohit Sharma is an alumnus from the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata. After working with organisations such as Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Jansahas, he founded Awaaz Leadership Labs(ALL) and Law Firm Ready. His organisation has so far trained 10,000+ law students from over 650 law schools in the country. He is currently working on building differential learning pedagogies in legal education and working towards reforms in clinical legal education.
Mr. Sharma has also served as researcher at Lakshmi Mittal South Asian Institute, Harvard University, where he researches on ‘History of Punishment in India’. (2022-2025). He is the conceptualiser of NUJS Diversity Report, MP Migrants Report, Vernacular Legal Blogs Series(JILS) and Reforms in Legal education Interview Series (JILS).
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Published – July 01, 2025 12:43 pm IST
