ISDLS has collaborated with the Supreme Court of India and
the Indian Ministry of Law & Justice on civil justice reform
topics since 1996, resulting in the passage of alternative dispute
resolution (ADR) legislation in 2002 and the implementation
of India’s first court-annexed ADR centers in 2005, 2006
and 2007.
At the invitation of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Supreme
Court of India, and major institutional owners of intellectual
property (IP) with strong interests in India, ISDLS has expanded
its ongoing civil and criminal justice projects to focus on
IP rights enforcement reform, particularly in Bangalore and
Delhi.
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History of ISDLS Legal
System Reform Projects in India
Delhi Mediation Project
Bangalore Mediation Project
Intellectual Property (IP) Rights
Enforcement Initiatives
Advisory Group
ISDLS Executive Director's
Address to Legal Community of Karnataka at the Inauguration
of the Bangalore Mediation Center, March 2007
Quotes about ISDLS Work in India
"I wish to record and convey to you and your country the
success of an outstanding and on-going Indo-US collaboration,
which has culminated in the establishment of the first lawyer
run mediation centre in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, created and
established jointly by the Institute for Arbitration Mediation
Legal Education And Development (AMLEAD), a not-for-profit non-governmental
organization and Ahmedabad Bar Association, the largest civil
court practitioners’ association in Gujarat, with the
guidance, support and initiative of Institute for Study and
Development of Legal Systems (ISDLS), San Francisco, USA."
-Mr. Naranjan Bhatt, an advocate involved in the Indian Civil
Justice Reform Project, to ISDLS Executive Director Stephen
Mayo, September 2002
"In view of the success of the ISDLS program, I would
recommend your continued support for such efforts and your encouraging
U.S.I.A., which has been so creative in its exploitation of
these programs, to remain active in this area. Likewise, programs
such as this one, that combine our interests in democratization,
support for commercial initiatives, conflict resolution, and
professional exchange should be noted in the Department’s
and U.S.I.A.’s presentations to the Congress as demonstrations
of what we can achieve at minimal cost to advance multiple objectives."
-U.S. Ambassador (India) Frank G. Wisner to U.S. Secretary
of State Warren Christopher, October 1996