The JusticeInside Review
Our quarterly magazine on the courts, law and legal profession in India. Each issue carries a cover story reported over months, long reads and interviews from the bench and the bar, and one of our annual rankings. Every issue since the first is here; the cover story of each is free to read online.
Two years of the new criminal codes: what has changed in courtrooms
Video-recorded searches, e-FIRs and time limits for judgments were meant to change how criminal justice works. Our correspondents spent three months in trial courts in six states to find out where the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Sakshya Adhiniyam have landed, and where they have not.
Also in this issue
Supreme CourtEleven years on death row: how the mercy-petition delay became cruel treatment InsolvencyHomebuyers under the IBC, five years as financial creditors: has the amendment delivered? RankingsBest Law Colleges in India 2026: the full table and how we built it Legal TechWe tested six legal AI tools on 200 questions. Here is what hallucinated EssayPending cases have crossed five crore. Vacancies, not holidays, are the reason2026
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3 issues2024
3 issuesThe rankings issues
How we rank →Top 100 Lawyers · Summer
The year's most consequential advocates and in-house counsel, chosen by peer and client surveys, reported matters and editorial research. Rankings cannot be purchased.
40 Under 40 · Winter
Forty lawyers under forty whose work in the preceding year moved the law, the market or the profession, with the matters that got them there.
Best Law Firms and Law Schools
Firms ranked by practice area in the Summer issue; law schools by placements, faculty, research and student satisfaction in the Winter issue, with the full methodology published alongside.
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