State of Andhra Pradesh, a state that made giant strides in spreading higher education, the government felt the need for establishing yet another university which would exclusively provide quality legal education and strive to raise national legal standards to competitive international level and promote legal awareness in the community, to realize the goals embodied in the Constitution of India.With growing importance for quality legal education, various national law schools acquired lot of importance.
To meet the requirements of students of this State, the Government of Andhra Pradesh decided to establish a new Law University and as per the decision of the Council of Ministers meeting held on 30-06-2008 the Governor of Andhra Pradesh promulgated the Andhra Pradesh University of Law Ordinance, 2008 on 8th July 2008. Subsequently the cabinet on 04-08-2008 approved Andhra Pradesh University of Law Bill, 2008, replacing the Ordinance and this Bill was passed by the State Legislature on 28th August 2008 and became an Act after the same was assented to by the Governor on 23rd September 2008. Thus A.P. University of Law came into existence with Visakhapatnam as Main Campus and two branches at Kadapa and Nizamabad.
