CLAT Consortium

CLAT Consortium - The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is conducted by the consortium of National Law Universities, also known as CLAT consortium. The national-level law entrance exam, CLAT is a gateway for admissions to the 22 national law universities of India. CLAT consortium was established on August 19, 2017, with an aim to improve the system of legal education in India and ensure better management and coordination among all the national law universities. Since the inception of CLAT consortium, the national-level law entrance exam has become more organised, transparent and effective. To know more about CLAT consortium, exam modalities and others, read the complete article.

What is the CLAT consortium?

To make the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) more effective and transparent and to better the legal education system in India, the 18 national law universities came together to form a body, Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLU) on August 19, 2017. In later years, 4 more national law universities have joined the consortium. Till date, all national law universities, except the National Law University Delhi, are part of the CLAT consortium.

CLAT consortium - Contact Information

• Address: P.O. Bag 7201, Nagarbhavi,

• Bangalore - 560 072 Karnataka, India

• Mail ID: clat@consortiumofnlus.ac.in

• Helpline Number: 08047162020

• Official Website: www.consortiumofnlus.ac.in

What is CLAT?

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) is a national-level law entrance exam conducted every year by the CLAT consortium. The law entrance exam is conducted for admissions to undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) law programmes offered by 22 National Law Universities.

Candidates must note the acceptability of CLAT is beyond national law universities as more than 50 law colleges consisting of both government and private institutions accept the CLAT scores for admissions into law courses.

CLAT consortium - Participating members

At present, there are 22 national law universities that are participating members of CLAT consortium. The names of all NLUs are mentioned in the table below.

List of National law universities participating in CLAT

Check - List of all government and private law colleges accepting CLAT scores

This year, the consortium has postponed CLAT 2020 from May 10 to May 31 in view of the COVID-19 outbreak. The entrance exam will be conducted in offline mode, with an updated CLAT exam pattern 2020. During the screening process, candidates will be tested for their knowledge of different subjects like Legal aptitude, English language, Mathematics, Current affairs and General knowledge.