EXCELLENT LEGAL GROUNDS

A MIX OF PEOPLE AND INFRASTRUCTURE HELP THE NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU REMAIN A LEADER OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA

- Ajay Sukumaran

AN INFRASTRUCTURAL REVAMP IS UNDERWAY AT THE NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY (NLSIU) to complement the academic expansion of the past few years during which it increased student intake. The number of students overall has increased from 550 in 2019 to 1,734 currently.

Now, two academic blocks on the 23-acre campus in Bengaluru will get an upgrade, while the university also plans to develop an adjoining 7 acre-parcel the Karnataka government granted it recently. The law school plans to spend Rs 100 crore towards the redevelopment of the two academic blocks over the next two years.

“What we are going through this year and which will be much more intense in the next two years is a comprehensive redevelopment of the campus,” says Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy, who believes that the 'mix of people and infrastructure' is what allows NLSIU to remain India's top law university. “When we put together this mix of people and infrastructure, we back it up with teaching and learning practices that are among the most rigorous in the university space,” adds Prof. Krishnaswamy.

On the academic front, NLSIU marked a milestone in May 2025 with the graduation of the first batch of students from the three-year LLB course started in 2022. This batch also included a Rhodes Scholar, Vibha Swaminathan, who was one of the five recipients in India of the prestigious scholarship for the year 2025.

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