# For Law Students — Niyam > AI legal research for Indian law students: learn how authority connects, build the citation habit moots and internships reward, and check good law over 72,000+ Supreme Court and High Court judgments — every answer opens the source. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to answer in plain English and show you the exact section or judgment behind every point — so you learn how authority hangs together, build the habit of citing primary sources, and always read the case yourself before you rely on it. ## What you can do - See the section and judgment behind every answer — then read the source - Build the citation habit that moots and internships reward - Good-law signals so you learn to spot an overruled precedent ## Capabilities - **Ask the question, see the authority behind it** — Type the issue as you'd put it in a tutorial — no boolean operators, no citation syntax. Niyam reads the relevant statutes and judgments and answers in plain English, with the controlling authority shown alongside, so you learn what governs the point instead of skimming ten summaries that never say. - **Read the judgment, don't cite the summary** — The habit that separates a good student is reading the source. Every proposition carries its authority, so you open the cited section or judgment, read the exact paragraph, and learn to cite only what you've actually read — the discipline a viva or moot bench will test. - **Learn to check a precedent is still good law** — In practice, citing an overruled case is a serious mistake — so learn the check now. Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so you build the instinct to verify a precedent's standing before you rely on it in a moot or a paper. - **Build your moot bundle from the real corpus** — Behind every answer is the full corpus — central and state Acts, rules, and judgments — indexed so the case on point surfaces even when the textbook called it something else. Find binding and persuasive authority for both sides of a moot proposition, and read each one before it goes in your bundle. ## How it works 1. **Ask in plain English** — Put the issue the way you'd ask in a tutorial. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to understand exactly what you mean. 2. **See the cited answer** — Every answer comes grounded in primary sources — sections, rules, and judgments — with citations you can open and read in full. 3. **Read the source and learn** — Open the judgment, read the paragraph, check it's still good law, and understand why it governs — then cite it with confidence. ## Frequently asked questions ### Will using Niyam stop me from learning to research? No — it's built to teach the habit, not replace it. Niyam shows you the controlling authority and how it connects, then sends you to the source to read it yourself. The learning happens when you open the judgment and read the paragraph; Niyam just gets you to the right one faster so you spend your time understanding it, not hunting for it. ### Can I trust it for a moot or a paper? Niyam retrieves from a corpus of real Indian judgments and statutes and cites what it relied on, so it doesn't invent cases the way a free-text chatbot can. That said, the rule for any moot or paper is the same: open the source, read it, and cite only what you've actually read. Niyam makes that easy by putting the source one click from every answer. ### Does it help me check whether a case is still good law? Yes, and learning that check is part of the point. Niyam surfaces a judgment's treatment history — followed, distinguished, referred to, or overruled — so you build the instinct to verify a precedent's standing before you rely on it, exactly as you'll have to in practice. ### Is this legal advice? No. Niyam is a legal research and learning tool that provides legal information grounded in primary sources. It does not give legal advice or create an advocate–client relationship. As a student you use it to learn and to prepare, and you remain responsible for reading and verifying every source. ### Can it find a case if I only know it by the doctrine? Yes. Ask in plain English by the legal point — the doctrine, the issue, the right involved — and Niyam finds the authority on it, even when you don't know the case name or citation. Then you open the judgment and confirm it's the one you need. ### Is my work private? Yes. Your queries and saved research stay private to your account, never sold and never used to train public models. You can prepare for moots and write papers knowing your work product stays yours. ### How does this help in an internship? Internship supervisors value a trainee who finds the binding authority, checks it's good law, and cites the primary source — fast. Niyam helps you do exactly that, so you contribute real research from week one and build the reputation that turns an internship into an offer. ## Get started Create your Niyam account in under a minute — ₹100 to start, 200 credits to try everything. Ask your first question and follow the authority back to the source. Start your ₹100 trial at https://app.niyam.ai/register — 200 credits to begin, cancel anytime.