The Tamil Nadu National Law School is a University established to provide quality legal education by the Tamil Nadu National Law School Act, 2012. The School is located in a 25 acre campus in the Tiruchirppalli - Dindigul NH 45 and 9.6 k.m from Tiruchirappalli Railway Junction, at Navalurkuttappattu. The Tamil Nadu National Law School is a residential university established with the initial contribution of Rs.100 crores from the Government of Tamilnadu.

The school is the first national level institution in the state of Tamil Nadu to disseminate learning and knowledge of law, legal processes, advocacy and skill in judicial administration keeping pace with the changing global scenario and to meet the challenges brought about by globalization.

The Objective of the School

• To promote and impart total legal education  at all levels to achieve excellence.
• To organize advanced studies and promote research in all branches of law.
• To impart legal knowledge and legal processes and their role in national development by conducting lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops and conferences.
• To understand cultural, legal and  social values with a view to promote  the rule of law and the objectives found in the Constitution of India.
• To  analyse  the benefit of the public such as, contemporary issues of public concern and their legal implications.
• To  make this law school competent  in higher learning and research in India and abroad.
• To publish periodicals, treaties, study books, reports, journals and other literature on all subjects relating to law.
• To hold examinations and confer degrees and other academic distinctions.
• To promote legal awareness in the community for achieving social and economic justice.
• To undertake study and training projects relating to law, legislation and judicial institutions.
• To do all such things as are incidental, necessary or conductive to the attainment of all or any of the objectives of the university.