Chief Justice of India Surya Kant highlighted the development of Swadeshi jurisprudence during a lecture at Oxford. He noted the Supreme Court's use of technology as an aid rather than a replacement for judicial reasoning.
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant delivered a lecture at the Oxford Union and the Oxford Law Society on the theme “Constitutional Promise to Digital Reality: Safeguarding Justice in the Age of AI and Technological Advancement”.He stated that the Supreme Court has approached technology as an aid to human reasoning. Considerable emphasis has been placed on developing a distinctly Indian or Swadeshi jurisprudence attentive to constitutional values, institutional realities, linguistic diversity, and social conditions.The CJI added that serious efforts are underway to explore an indigenous AI ecosystem for the judiciary. He noted that technology has brought judicial systems into closer conversation globally.Surya Kant emphasised that an artificial intelligence system can process legal text quickly but remains blind to empathy, ethical discernment, and contextual understanding. Young lawyers and judicial officers have supported the judiciary's technological changes, he said.
