NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY AND JUDICIAL ACADEMY

National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam (NLUJA or NLUJAA) is a National Law University located in Guwahati, Assam, India, established in 2009 through the National Law School and Judicial Academy, Assam Act (later amended to University in 2011/2012). The first admissions were made in 2011, graduating in 2016. Gurjeet Singh was the first vice-chancellor, and K.V.S Sarma currently leads the institution after V.K Ahuja in 2024. The 60-acre campus in Amingaon, Guwahati, houses academic and administrative buildings, hostels, a conference hall, moot court hall, dining hall, gymnasiums, and a library with over nine thousand printed titles and access to major legal databases. The university has nineteen centres of excellence covering diverse legal fields such as human rights, IPR, disaster management, and child rights. It offers a five-year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) program, one-year LL.M. specializations, and a Ph.D. research program with around 15 scholars. NLUJA publishes academic journals like NLUALR and NLUALPR, and student magazines including 'The Lost Stories' and 'NLUJA Echoes'. In NIRF rankings, it was placed 20th in 2021 and 28th in 2023 among law universities.