National Law School of India University

National Law School of India University (NLSIU), or simply National Law School (NLS), is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore, considered by rankings to be the best law school in India.

Having been spearheaded by the then Chief Justice Y. V. Chandrachud, National Law School was the first National Law University (NLU) to be established in India as well as one of the first in the country to offer the five-year integrated BA-LLB programme.

The university was established by the NLSIU Act of 1986 passed by the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. By statute, the visitor of the school is the Chief Justice of India, who also is the de facto Chancellor.[b] The day-to-day management and administration of the university is undertaken by the Vice-Chancellor. The founding of the school was the idea of N. R. Madhava Menon who also went on to establish other NLUs in the country as part of law education reforms.

Spread over 23 acres of campus, it houses India’s largest law library and hosts some of the country’s largest competitions and events, two of which are the NLS Debate and Strawberry Fields. The school is known for its highly competitive admissions which are screened through the Common Law Admission Test and National Law School Admission Test (NLSAT). It has a yearly intake of 568 students across its programmes.

National Law School is the only Indian institute to have won Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, having done so in 1999 and 2013. 25 of its alumni have been Rhodes scholars. Its flagship student-run publication, the National Law School of India Review, has been cited by the Supreme Court of India thrice.