Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law is one of the oldest faculties of law in Germany. Today, the Faculty of Law is based in the building of the “Alte Universität”. This Renaissance square building with four wings had been completed in 1591. The devastating aerial bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16th, 1945 destroyed the old university building. Today the reconstructed building also accommodates modern lecture rooms as well as a library of some 341,000 volumes and a cafeteria. The impressive “Neubaukirche” and its foyer are used as the University’s assembly hall. The Faculty of Law consists of 20 Chairs and 5 Professorships, which together form 6 Institutes. Some 2,200 students are currently studying law at the Faculty of Law of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and each year about 550 new students arrive.