The Faculty of Law was founded on June 23, 1961 as a higher education institution in Kosovo and was initially called the Faculty of Law and Economics, a name it kept until 1970. From 1971 until today, the Faculty of Law functions as a unit academic within the University of Pristina (UP), which organizes basic, master’s and doctoral studies. At the Faculty of Law, studies were conducted according to the four-year system. Postgraduate studies were opened in 1974/75, initially in the Administrative-Political section and in the Legal-Civil section, and from the academic year 1984/85 also in the Legal-Penal section.
Throughout this period, since the beginning of the work, the Faculty of Law has produced numerous cadres, who have made an irreplaceable contribution in the field of legal science, judiciary, prosecution, administration, politics and in national issues and state formation and state building. The Faculty of Law is the first institution of higher education in Kosovo that has offered the education of lawyers in the legal education system, despite facing numerous challenges.