in Forensic science, MPhil, Ph.D., LL.D, and diplomas in business laws and other programs, in addition to a number of online courses.

[citation needed] NUJS was established in 1999 by the Bar Council of India (BCI), with the government of West Bengal.

[citation needed] The NUJS, along with NLSIU and GNLU, remain the only three national law schools that have the honourable Chief Justice of India as the Chancellor.

Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal who was a Middle Temple barrister,[10] Sh.

Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, also a Middle Temple barrister and a leading member of the Calcutta Bar Library; and Justice Chittotosh Mookerjee, a former Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court and the Bombay High Court and the acting Governor of Maharashtra.

In 2006, NUJS was allotted a 50-acre (200,000 m2) plot in Rajarhat, an upscale township, which is being developed by the West Bengal government.

The latter comprises two, seven-storied halls of residence for girls and boys, and a double-storied faculty accommodation house-cum-guest house.

NUJS's main campus is located on a 5-acre (20,000 m2) plot in Salt Lake City, overseeing the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass.

[16] NUJS, in collaboration with iPleaders,[17] offers a diploma in Entrepreneurship Administration and Business Laws,[18] which has students from 10 different countries.

[20] 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".

[21] 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),[22] which has been now discontinued.

[27][28] Among the distinguished faculty at NUJS are former judges of the Supreme Court of India, including Uday Umesh Lalit (former Chief Justice of India), who serves as a distinguished visiting professor [29] 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.

In 2003, NUJS became the only Indian and second Asian college to win the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, held at Vienna.

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.

[37] In 2020, NUJS won the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, which was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.