Hidayatullah National Law University

Hidayatullah National Law University is a state law university in Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The Government of Chhattisgarh established it in 2003 under the Hidayatullah National University of Law, Chhattisgarh Act (Act No. 10 of 2003), and the university describes itself as the sixth in the series of National Law Schools. The campus is at Sector 40, Uparwara, Nava Raipur Atal Nagar. The university is on the UGC list under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956, is declared fit to receive central assistance under Section 12(B), and is recognised by the Bar Council of India under Section 7 of the Advocates Act, 1961. In August 2026 the Bar Council of India extended its provisional approval of the five-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) programme, with an intake of three sections of 60 students, up to the 2026-27 academic year.

The university teaches law at three levels: the five-year integrated B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), a one-year LL.M. spread over two semesters, and a Ph.D. in law and inter-disciplinary studies that began in the 2014-15 session. The B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) has an ordinary intake of 180 seats and the LL.M. 90, with reserved seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBC candidates, Chhattisgarh domicile seats, NRI and foreign-national seats, and supernumerary seats for wards of Kashmiri migrants and students from Jammu and Kashmir. Admission to both degree programmes is on CLAT 2026 scores through counselling by the CLAT Consortium, while Ph.D. scholars are admitted through a separate test conducted by the university.