The northeastern region of India has traditionally been one of the underdeveloped and marginalized areas of the Indian nation.

In 2009, despite the presence of a High Court for the eight ‘Seven Sister’ states, viz., Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura in Guwahati; the scenario of legal education in the area remained far from the potential of possible proliferation of excellence in the realm of legal profession.

The campus of National Law University and Judicial Academy, spread over 60 acres, it is situated in the locality of Amingaon, a municipality on the outskirts of Guwahati City.

[1] In its library, the university has a collection of more than nine thousand printed titles and more than two hundred e-books covering law, social sciences and humanities.

[2] The university has established nineteen fully equipped centres of excellence for legal studies.

The Law University became the first NLU to formalize an MoU with IDIA (An organization for teaching and training the underprivileged section of the society).}

The university started its own student magazine, "The Lost Stories" in May 2017 showcasing the creative skills from the field of photography, literature, and poetry.