The JSW Centre for the Future of Law is organising a guest lecture on 7th September, 2026, from 5:00 – 6:30 PM with Dr Akanksha Bisoyi at the NAB 105 on the topic, ‘Critical Making for Justice: Applying Design Method to India’s Digital Courts’.

Venue: NAB 105, NLSIU Campus
Time and Date: 07 September 2026, Monday, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
The workshop is open to the public. Kindly register here.

Abstract

This session introduces critical making as a design method for studying and reimagining access to justice, applied specifically to the digitisation of India’s courts. Participants will move from a theoretical framing into a hands-on exercise, physically modelling and redesigning a justice user’s encounter with a digital court process to surface points of friction, exclusion, and possibility.

About the Speaker

Dr Akansha Bisoyi is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Professorship of Law, Innovation, and Legal Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), working with Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal. She designs legal and policy toolkits and interactive platforms that make governance legible and legitimate, with a focus on how emerging technologies can be designed, shaped, and deployed to comply with the rule of law.

Since April 2026, she has held the Friedrich Schiedel Fellowship at the TUM Think Tank and is an affiliated researcher at the TransforM Excellence Cluster. Originally from Odisha, she trained in Mumbai and Geneva and completed her doctorate at TUM with a dissertation on blockchain and legitimacy, awarded magna cum laude.