The National Law School is a completely residential University with nearly all its 400 odd students living on campus. For the many to whom this is their first time living away from home, hostel life offers many exciting experiences.

Residing on campus enables undergraduates to widen their horizon and acquire important inter-personal skills. The Hostel on campus is a miniature society. There, you will meet people of very different backgrounds and personalities. As you are staying in the same hostel, your contact with your hostel mates is much more intensive than that with your secondary school classmates. With more interaction comes greater need to adjust and accept, especially with your roommates. You need to discuss issues of common interest with him/her to prevent problems from arising; at the same time, your need to sort our existing problems when your opinions are divided. You learn to be tactful and patient. You learn to look at things from another person's perspective. Participating in the management of the hostel also help one valuable organization skills. There is really a lot to learn.

NLSIU is a residential University and all the students are required to stay in the Halls of Residence in the Campus. There are three hostels for boys and three for girls. Each hostel has its own student managed Dining Hall and Kitchen which serve both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.

NLSIU is a residential University and all the students are required to stay in the Halls of Residence in the Campus. There are three hostels for boys and three for girls. Each hostel has its own student managed Dining Hall and Kitchen which serve both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.

When one wants a change in the palate there is always the canteen which is open from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. One can find soft drinks, snacks as well as regular meals. Another popular student eatery is Just Food, the cafeteria attached to the training centre. Just Food serves highly subsidized meals for lunch and dinner.

Boys are generally allotted triple seater rooms while girls have the choice of twin seaters and dormitories as well. Triple seater rooms are T-shaped and once a curtain is drawn across the entrance each cubicle becomes like a private room. All rooms have a bed, cup-board, chair and desk. Students are advised to bring their own mattress, curtains and bed linen. All hostels have 24 hours running hot water. A dhobi comes to the hostels regularly for laundry and ironing. All the Women's hostels and one of the Men's hostels are on 24 hours generator. Efforts are being made to link the other Men's hostels to the University generator.

The NLSIU has evolved over the years a unique system of self-governance in the halls of residence with much of the day-to-day activities managed by Student Committees working under the supervision and control of a Warden. The Warden is responsible to the NLSIU for the welfare and discipline of the students in the hostel. However, he/she delegates much of the work to student committees (Mess Committee, General Welfare Committee and Disciplinary Committee) constituted each year from among the inmates of the hostel concerned in the month of May.

The NLSIU insists on a very high standard of discipline from the residents befitting the status and reputation of this unique centre for legal education. The Director is the final authority in this regard and he, in consultation with the Faculty, issues from time to time norms and standards for student behaviour, violation of which is severely punished according to the procedure prescribed.

A Senior faculty committee (the Disciplinary Affairs Advisory, Review and implementation Committee) has been given responsibility for implementing disciplinary rules and standards.

Without prejudice to the rules thus prescribed, it shall be the duty of every resident to maintain integrity of character and follow high traditions of discipline set by the NLSIU. Smoking is and consumption of the alcohol and narcotics is strictly prohibited on campus. Violation of these rules are dealt with strictly. Immoral conduct, entertaining unauthorized guests and behaviour disturbing other inmates are punishable as violation of hostel discipline. Damage to the property of the NLSIU will be severely dealt with and cost of repair will be recovered from the students concerned.

All first year students are expected to return to the campus by 8.00 p.m. All the rest are expected to return by 10.00 p.m. Those who want to stay outside beyond 10.00 p.m. are required to make entries in the Movement Register kept at the gate and they too are required to be back by 12.30 a.m. Staying outside beyond 12.30 a.m. shall strictly be on written permission of the Warden/Resident Tutor. Violation of these rules will invite heavy monetary fines and, if repeated may entail removal from the hostel. No unauthorised persons can stay in the hostel. Their visit even if they are known to residents beyond 9.30 p.m. shall not be allowed without written permission of Warden/Resident Tutor.

Campus use of expensive personal equipment not affordable to all students as well as maintaining automobiles on campus is strongly discouraged as they potentially affect student morale and the learning environment.

Disciplinary proceedings for violation of hostel rules shall be initiated by the Warden or on his/her authority by the Student Disciplinary Committee. The Chief Warden is empowered to impose appropriate punishment other than expulsion from the hostel which power shall be exercised by the Director. Appeal from the decision of the Chief Warden shall lie to the Registrar whose decision shall ordinarily be final. If so desired, a resident can prefer a second appeal to the Director on the Collegium's decision. Money recovered by way of fine shall be separately kept by the Warden and shall be accounted as prescribed by the NLSIU.

During vacation period, students residing in halls of residence shall vacate their respective rooms to facilitate University to organize other programmes.