The NLS Library Committee organised a Book Talk on the book Justice Making, Justice Spaces & Justice Users published by Goa 1556 in collaboration with Kokum Design Trust. The book is edited by Dean D’ Cruz, Reboni Saha, Siddhrath Peter de Souza, Varsha Aithala and Naomi Jose. The talk took place at the Ground Floor Conference Hall at the NLSIU Training Centre on Monday, December 1, 2025.

About the book

The book reimagines how justice systems can be reshaped to better serve the people, especially those historically disadvantaged. Focussing on public spaces in Goa like courtrooms, police stations, protest sites, and classrooms, this collection brings together voices of practitioners, activists, and researchers to ask: How are these spaces structured, and what must change for them to truly support those seeking justice?

The book contains grounded case studies and thoughtful reflections from the digitalisation of courts to protest movements and planning law and aims to offer a compelling and people-centred vision of justice.

About the Panellists

• Varsha Aithala is an Assistant Professor of Law and a doctoral candidate at the National Law School of India University. Her doctoral work focusses on legal aid in India. She is a partner at Justice Adda, a law and design thinking based social enterprise. Her teaching and research interests cover areas of access to justice, law and technology and private law. Varsha has significant corporate practice experience in India and the United Kingdom. She is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an advocate in India.
• Dr. Siddharth Peter de Souza is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University. His work explores how data is governed globally in contested, and plural settings. He is also the founder at Justice Adda.
• Dr. Siddharth Narrain is an Assistant Professor of Law at the National Law School of India University, whose work focusses on public law, law and media, human rights law, and gender and sexuality related law. Siddharth’s Ph.D. thesis titled Facebook’s Crowds and Publics: Law, Virality & the Regulation of Hate Speech Online in Contemporary India (UNSW, Sydney 2023) investigates how virality has enabled digital harms including hate speech online that has led to serious challenges to platform governance in the Indian context.

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