Public Defence Initiative

The Public Defense Initiative is a new program of the M. Gopalan Memorial Foundation that seeks to use law in a variety of ways to secure Constitutional rights and freedoms of common people. To this end, the initiative is working to create a public defense network to defend the rights of indigent litigants in Indian courts, as well as on expanding access to high-quality legal education for the children of India's poorest communities to train them as India’s next generation of judges, law professors, and public defenders.