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The Indian Society for Universal Dialogue^[1][2][3] is a student's society at the School of Excellence in Law, Chennai affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University. The ISUD borrows inspiration from the prestigious Oxford Union, a renowned students’ society established at the University of Oxford in 1823.

The ISUD was established by students of the School of Excellence in Law with the aim of fostering a culture of debate and dialogue of contemporary ideas and issues that broadly concern various themes. The ISUD was inaugurated by Hon'ble Justice M Sundar of the Madras High Court and Mr. S. Gurukrishna Kumar, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, following the 200th year of the establishment of the Oxford Union in 2023. Dr. Patricia Théry-Hart, Director of the Alliance Française of Madras, Dr. Katharina Görgen, Director of the Goethe Institut and Mr. David Eggleston, Deputy Consul-General of Australia were guests of honour.^[4][5]

The flagship programme of the ISUD is the India@100 Series^[1][3] that "seeks to engage in a comprehensive exploration of India's journey" over 100 years of its independence. The programme hosts a series of dialogues, debates, conversations, literature on themes that have shaped India.

Hon'ble Justice N Anand Venkatesh of the Madras High Court was featured in one of the notable conversations of the India@100 Series in April 2024. Mr. V. Sriram a noted Author and Historian was also featured in a lecture on the Legal History of Madras.

In December 2024, the ISUD organised a panel discussion on "The Idea of Gender Justice in India"^[6] featuring prominent members of the Bar and Bench of the Madras High Court, Justices Prabha Sridevan, PT Asha, N Anand Venkatesh and Sriram Panchu, Senior Advocate. The conversation was moderated by Dr. Swarna Rajagopalan, Founder of Prajnya Trust.

In January 2025, a conversation on "The Architects of India's Constitution" featuring the living descendants of the members of the erstwhile Constituent Assembly of India (1946-1949) was organised under the India@100 Series. The conversation featured Geeta Doctor, a Senior Journalist who shared personal anecdotes of her father Shri KV Padmanabhan who then was an undersecretary in the Constituent Assembly Secretariat assisting Sir BN Rau in making the first draft of the Constitution; Amb. Latha Reddy, a former Deputy National Security Advisor of India, spoke about her grandfather HC Guruv Reddy and her granduncle Shri KC Reddy both of whom were members of the Assembly from Mysore State; Raju Ramachandran, a former Additional Solicitor General of India, spoke of his connections to Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer and Begum Aijaz Rasul. Manuraj Shanmugasundaram, advocate at the High Court of Madras added contemporary perspectives to the conversation.

The Indian Society for Universal Dialogue is governed by its Executive Committee headed by a student President and assisted by Secretaries of various ranks and responsibilities. The Society also consists of a General Body of student Members who represent each department of study. The Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University is the de jure patron of the Society. The functioning of the Society is governed by its by-laws.