SCL India was founded in 2016 to promote education, study, and research (and publication of the valuable results of such research) in the field of construction law and related subjects and its dissemination in India and overseas. SCL India has members from all stages of their professional careers who share an interest in construction law. These members include lawyers, arbitrators, experts, contractors, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, insurers, students, and so on.

SCL India was founded to plug the need for a body that would promote research and education in the field of construction law by providing a forum, a means by which this could be done. Thus, SCL India encourages the active involvement of all of its members and generates discourse across a broad spectrum of issues relating to construction law, including matters of policy and legislation, front-end issues, dispute avoidance, and all forms of dispute resolution.

The Society of Construction Law – India is affiliated with the Society of Construction Law – UK, founded in 1983.