[3] The university admits around 120[4] candidates each year through the Common Law Admission Test for the B.A.

Since 2009, NLIU has stationed the Rajiv Gandhi National Cyber Law Center, established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

However, major action would not be taken on this proposition until the National Law Institute University was set up in Bhopal by Act No.

The Chief Justice of India of the time, Hemant Gupta, intervened to resolve the crisis.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court began the process of appointing a new director of the university.

[13][14] In October 2023, NLIU Bhopal hosted an event by the Young Thinkers' Forum, inaugurated by union minister Bhupender Yadav.

The event featured speeches and literature deemed Islamophobic and hostile towards Christians, along with posters deriding and villainizing academics and intellectuals, who had previously opposed or criticized the BJP.

Vice-chancellor S. Surya Prakash stated that NLIU did not endorse the ideas presented and did not anticipate the nature of the event.