West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

Dr. Ambedkar Bhavan (University academic block)

The Salt Lake Campus consists of an academic block and three residential blocks. The latter comprises two, seven-storied halls of residence for girls and boys, and a double-storied faculty accommodation house-cum-guest house. The second campus in Sector V for the B.Sc. LLB (Hons.), M.Sc., and LL.M. batches has twin three-storied residential blocks, one for boys and one for girls. The university's academic block, christened after B.R. Ambedkar, is a four-storied octagonal structure that opens inwardly to a lawn. The building houses classrooms, a library and reading room, two conference halls, offices and an auditorium.[11] The temporary academic block for the B.Sc. LLB (Hons.) program in Sector I is located on the renovated first and second floors of a BSNL office, housing classrooms, a library, a conference hall, offices and an auditorium.

NUJS's main campus is located on a 5-acre (20,000 m²) plot in Salt Lake City, overseeing the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. The National Institute of Fashion Technology and the College of Leather Technology border the Campus. NUJS's Rajarhat Campus is yet to be built. No significant construction has been undertaken and the land lies vacant.[12]

Admission to the hostels is conducted simultaneously with admission to the university.[13]

• Sir Justice Asutosh Mookerjee Chair for Studies in Tradition, Law and Social Transformation in Bengal[14]

An online Masters in Business Laws degree (2 years) is now being offered by the university.[15]

NUJS, in collaboration with iPleaders,[16] offers a diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Laws,[17] which has students from 10 different countries. This is university's most successful distance education program.[18]

On 29 April 2013, vice-chancellor P. Ishwara Bhat issued a letter of intent.[19]

In November 2014, the university has announced an online Executive Certification Program to train HR professionals, in-house legal counsels, NGO workers, women's rights activists and compliance professionals on sexual harassment prevention and workplace diversity management. The program is titled "Executive Certification on Sexual Harassment Prevention and Workplace Diversity Management".[20]

NUJS used to offer a post-graduate diploma program in business law (in partnership with Rainmaker, the firm which provides logistical support in conducting All India Bar Exam),[21] which has been now discontinued. NUJS offers corporate training course on company law to Larsen & Toubro, one of India's largest engineering and construction conglomerates,[22] Post-Graduate Executive Diploma in Business Management and Law (in partnership with IIM Shillong),[23]

NUJS was ranked second by India Today's "India's Best Colleges 2022: Law".[25] The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it fourth (4th) in India in the law ranking in 2023.[26]

Inside of Kolkata NUJS

Amongst the distinguished faculty at NUJS are former judges of the Supreme Court of India, including Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, who serves as a distinguished visiting professor [27] and Justice Ruma Pal, who was the Ford Foundation Chair Professor of Human Rights, Arun Prasad Mukherjee, the former Governor of Mizoram, and Shamnad Basheer, who held the MHRD IPR Chair and who is well known in the field of intellectual property.[28]

Teachers at NUJS have degrees and fellowships from prestigious foreign universities such as Columbia University, University of Oxford, Vanderbilt University, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of Nottingham, University of Essex, and Emory University. Lecturers educated in India include alumni of institutions such as NLSIU, NALSAR University of Law, GNLU, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Presidency College, Calcutta, St. Stephen's College, Delhi and, in a recent trend, NUJS itself. The NUJS faculty has published in journals such as European Intellectual Property Review, International Journal of Biotechnology, Journal of World Investment and Trade, Yale Journal of Law and Technology among others.[29]

Winners of ELSA Moot Court Competition 2015 at the World Trade Organisation headquarters in Geneva. From left to right - Ira Chadha-Sridhar, Abhimanyu Hazari, Werner Zdouc (WTO), Sandeep Ravikumar and Pramiti Parwani.[30]

Students have won numerous encomiums at national and international Moot Court competitions. In 2003, NUJS became the only Indian and second Asian college to win the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, held at Vienna.[31] In 2005 and 2017, the University Moot team won the Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, which is held each year in Hong Kong.[32] In 2013, NUJS won the Pan Asian Award at the Vis (East) Competition.[33] In the field of international trade law, NUJS has twice won the ELSA Moot Court Competition conducted by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), first in 2010 and next in 2015.[34] NUJS is the only Indian law school to have won this competition since its inception. In 2005 & 2023, NUJS also emerged as winners at the Stetson International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Stetson University Law School in Gulfport, Florida, USA after winning the India rounds organised by Surana and Surana Moots.[35] In 2020, NUJS won the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, which was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With this, NUJS became the only Indian university to win the moot twice.[36]