The Government of Tamil Nadu by an Act of State Legislature [Act No.43 of 1997] established the Tamil Nadu Dr.Ambedkar Law University for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in learning, teaching and research in the field of law. His Excellency Shri. K.R. Narayanan, then President of India inaugurated it on September 20, 1997 in the presence of Dr.Kalaignar Karunanidhi, then Chief Minister of Tamilnadu and the University started from October 3, 1997 onwards. The University was named after the Architect of the Indian Constitution Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. The University is recognized by the Bar Council of India ( BCI ) and University Grants Commission ( UGC ) ( Sec. 2f and 12b of the UGC Act. ). The University is also a member of the Association of Indian Universities ( AIU ), Association of Common Wealth Universities, U.K. and Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. This University is functioning as Nodal Agency of the Government to uplift the legal education in the State of Tamil Nadu.The University has been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with B++ grade in September 2022.

The University is the first full-fledged sui generis affiliating Law University in the country; it is unique among all the Law Universities in the Country. It offers Legal Education through this University and its affiliated colleges in the State and the University is the first of its kind not only in the country but also in South Asia. The University offers legal education at its campus as well as through fifteen affiliated government law colleges in the state of Tamil Nadu located at Chennai, Madurai,Trichy,Coimbatore,Tirunelveli,PattaraiPerambudur,Pudupakkam,Chengalpattu,Villupuram,Dharmapuri,Ramanathapuram,Vellore, Theni, Namakkal, Salem and Karaikudi. In addition to the Government Law Colleges, University offers legal education through nine private law colleges located in the different parts of Tamil Nadu. The School of Excellence in Law was established by the University in the year 2002 at its campus has been modeled on the lines of other National Law Schools in the country and offers three year as well as five year integrated undergraduate courses in Law. The University has a Postgraduate and Research Centre, which offers Master of Law Degree Courses in eleven different specializations, doctoral programme as well as organizing research in diverse areas of Law.

Multidisciplinary approach to the study of law is gradually emerging as the need of the hour. TNDALU has adequate infrastructural facilities to provide the perfect ambience for interdisciplinary studies in law, in its true sense. University not only imbibed with multidisciplinary approach to the legal studies and research but it is making genuine efforts to disseminate such approach to both the privileged and underprivileged learners and researchers of law and jurisprudence. It is striving towards imparting quality legal education to the students including the students who are from poor, oppressed, downtrodden and backward communities of the society. The mission of the University is to equip the students with critical, analytical and applied skills and also to make both transactional and litigating lawyers. The School of Excellence in Law of TNDALU has been following the interdisciplinary approach in teaching, which is supported by its domain-expert faculty, state- of-the art infrastructure, international quality teaching pedagogies, special lectures by legal experts, and excellent nurturing environment for learning and thinking.

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