युक्ती हीने विचारे तु धर्महानि प्रजायते

Vision

  • Providing legal education in national and international perspective and making the University as a centre of excellence for lifelong learning.
  • Enabling students impactful learning towards interdisciplinary knowledge and research-based justice oriented ethical learning.

Vision & Mission

Mission

  • Empowerment of youth through imparting high quality legal knowledge, training, skill, and research.
  • Making students ready for accepting new challenges in social, economic, globalisation and turning as social engineers.
  • Enabling students to learn interface between law, science, and technology.
  • Promoting innovation in teaching, learning and community service.
  • To cooperate with other institution of higher learning in the matter of legal education, training and research in law, justice, social development, and allied subjects.

THE WBNUJS ACT CAME INTO FORCE ON 3RD AUGUST, 1999.

THE PREAMBLE OF THE ACT READS:

An Act to establish and incorporate a National University of Juridical Sciences at Calcutta in West Bengal.
WHEREAS the Committee appointed by the Chief Justices’ Conference on Legal Education and Training (1993) has recommended the establishment in each State of an institution on the model of the National Law School of India University at Bangalore;
AND WHEREAS the All India Law Ministers’ Conference (1995) has resolved to set up in each State a Law School modeled on the lines of the National Law School of India University at Bangalore for improving the quality of professional legal education.
AND WHEREAS it is considered necessary to encourage the establishment of such a national level institution of excellence in higher learning of law in the State of West Bengal.
AND WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to establish the National University of Juridical Sciences for the purpose hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal.