Our Mission and Purpose
Why do we do this?
Justice Adda works towards transforming the relationship people have with the justice system. The justice system is usually thought of as complex, distant, overwhelming and intimidating. Our endeavour is to empower people to use the law for their well-being.
How do we do this?
Through the process of co-production, iteration and applying principles of design justice, our interventions seek to identify and reduce barriers people face to access justice, and provide them with strategies to resolve unmet legal needs. We believe that this can foster greater engagement and trust in the legal system, creating better individual and social outcomes.
What do we do?
We strive to make information about laws and the justice system thought provoking, playful, and understandable. Our projects are open access and multilingual - available in multiple Indian languages, including Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, and Kannada making our resources accessible to especially those who may not engage with English content.
We aim to bridge knowledge gaps, engage people and communities with socio-legal issues and tools in a language and format that feels familiar and relatable.
Meet the Team
Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder
Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.
Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead
Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.
Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead
Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.
Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead
arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.
Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder
Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.
Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead
Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.
Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead
Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.
Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead
arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.
Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder
Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.
Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead
Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.
Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead
Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.
Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead
arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.
Siddharth Peter de Souza
Founder
Siddharth studied law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the universities of Cambridge and Delhi. His interests lie at the intersection of access to justice, data justice and legal design.
Siddhi Gupta
Design & Communications Lead
Siddhi is a designer, educator and researcher. Her practice intersects visual communication and creative education. She has studied communication design at NIFT, Delhi and RCA, London.
Aparna Mehrotra
Law & Communications Lead
Aparna Mehrotra is an advocate practicing in courts and tribunals in India. Her practice and research interests include constitutional law and literacy, gender and sexuality law and transnational climate justice.
Varsha Aithala
Operations Lead
arsha Aithala is a lawyer, teacher, and researcher based at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She specializes in social investment, law and technology, access to justice, and legal system reform.
Who do we work with?
These projects have, through different strategies, aimed to:
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understand people’s experience of justice and the law and foreground diverse voices to inform policies, advocacy efforts, and new legal innovations that can bring about meaningful change.
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research and analyse how the law impacts people’s lives, particularly those on the margins, and explore interventions that promote justice, equity, and empowerment - with real-world data, case studies, and field insights.
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break-down and explain complex research in a comprehensible, practically relatable and actionable way .
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facilitate workshops and learning spaces to enable people and communities to access the justice system.
Our Annual Reports
Organization
Justice Adda, part of Jusadd Innovation Lab LLP is a social enterprise that helps human rights campaigners, development organisations, justice and other legal institutions to empower people to understand and use the law by providing content, design, and technology solutions.
Justice Adda was incubated at the Cambridge Social Ventures programme in the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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