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COUNCIL OF EUROPE: HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Higher education plays a crucial role in developing the democratic culture without which democratic institutions and laws will not function in practice. In respect of academic freedom and institutional autonomy, democratic institutions should also play a key role in assessing and rethinking how our democracies should evolve over the coming generation to ensure a commitment to European values and the active participation of citizens in public space. The resources including publications, texts, lectures video available with the council has a rich source of information. Click here to Access COUNCIL OF EUROPE: HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH |
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AISHE: ALL INDIA SURVEY ON HIGHER EDUCATION To portray the status of higher education in the country, Ministry of Education has endeavoured to conduct an annual web-based All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) since 2010-11. The survey covers all the Institutions in the country engaged in imparting of higher education. Data is being collected on several parameters such as teachers, student enrolment, programmes, examination results, education finance, infrastructure. Indicators of educational development such as Institution Density, Gross Enrolment Ratio, Pupil-teacher ratio, Gender Parity Index, Per Student Expenditure will also be calculated from the data collected through AISHE. These are useful in making informed policy decisions and research for development of education sector. Click here to Access AISHE: ALL INDIA SURVEY ON HIGHER EDUCATION |
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WORLD BANK OPEN DATA (STATISTICAL DATA) World Bank Open Data Portal provides access to make World Bank data easy to find, download, and use. All of the data found here can be used free of charge with minimal restrictions. Data displayed on this site are a subset of those available in the World Bank’s Data Bank, which contains extensive collections of time series data. The Data Bank has advanced functions for selecting and slicing the datasets, performing customized queries and data downloads, and creating charts and other visualizations. Click here to Access WORLD BANK OPEN DATA (STATISTICAL DATA) |
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The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) <www.liiofindia.org> is an international standard, free-access and non-profit, comprehensive online collection of Indian legal information. The prototype is open for public use on 25 November 2010. It was formally launched in India in by National Law University Delhi at Vigyan Bhawan on 1st May 2010. The contents of the LII of India prototype contains 154 databases including legislation (the India Code from 1836, some State legislation, and commentary on legislation), Indian case law (over 300,000 cases in full text from the Supreme Court, most High Courts, and tribunals), treaties (all India treaties to 1975, plus many subsequent bilateral treaties), law reform reports (from the Law Commission), legal scholarship (six law journals to date, with scholarship repositories, books and judicial scholarship still to be developed), cases concerning India in International Courts and Tribunals, and cases concerning India from the pre-1873 English Reports. |
Delhi Public Library
Constitute
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Constitute CONSTITUTE is a webpage providing access to Constitutions of almost all countries around the world with an updated version. One can access constitution texts in English as well as the language of the Countries. CONSTITUTE claims that New constitutions are written every year. The people who write these important documents need to read and analyze texts from other places. Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface. (Courtesy: https://www.constituteproject.org/) |
Case Law
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Judgement Information System (JUDIS) Judgment Information System the Judgments Information system consists of the Judgments of the Supreme court of India and several High Courts. In the case of the Supreme Court all reported Judgments which are published in SCR Journal, since its inception i.e. 1950 till date are available. JUDIS also provides access of the judgments of all 21 State High Courts along with pronouncement delivered by select district courts too. |
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Australian High Court Judgment The pronouncements of Australian High Court (the Apex Court of Australia) from 1903 to till date may be accessed through the website maintained by Australian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII). Judgments from 2000 onwards are also available for public access trough web portal of High Court of Australia at http://www.hcourt.gov.au/publications/judgments |
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Canada Supreme Court Judgments The Judgment of Supreme Court of Canada can be accessible through official website of Canadian Supreme Court since 1876 to till date since establishment of the Court. The Canadian Supreme Court also provides Canada Supreme Court Reports its official reporting journals in portable data file format since 2013. Individual judgments since 1876 is available in true copy format and can be used directed to submit court procedures. |
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UK Supreme Court Judgments UK Supreme Court was established on 1st October, 2009. Prior to this House of Lords was treated as the highest Court of Appeal in UK. The Judgement of UK Supreme Court (2009 to till date) and House of Lords (1838 to 2009) are accessible through British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BALII) and can be referred through the following links. The Judgments of other Courts of Appeals are also available through BALII database. Click to access UK Supreme Court Judgments |
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US Supreme Court Decisions United states Supreme Court provides the text of its Opinions (Term/Slip) through its official website. The Judgments of US Supreme Court can also be accessed through the Website of Cornell Legal Information Institute (Cornell LII) since 1990 to till date. Bound Volumes in PDF formats can also be downloading since 1991 Vol.502 to till date. Click to Access US Supreme Court Opinion |
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International Court of Justice (ICJ) ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). Of the six principal organs of the United Nations, it is the only one not located in New York (United States of America). The judgements delivered by the court are accessible on the web portal of ICJ. Click to Access ICJ |
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ECJ officially just the Court of Justice is the highest court in the European Union in matters of European Union law. The court was established in 1952, by the Treaty of Paris (1951) as part of the European Coal and Steel Community.. Judgement of European Court of Justice can be accessed through the web portal. |
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