The Faculty of Law in Lund is a modern faculty with a clear international profile.  We offer an environment which is suitable and welcoming for Swedish and international students, lecturers and researchers alike.  Education, research and interaction with the surrounding community are the three mainstays of our work. The connection between these three mainstays is particularly apparent in the programmes and courses on offer, where students meet both researchers and professionally active lawyers with qualifications and experience from various areas of law.

The faculty was founded as early as 1666 and is one of the University’s four original faculties. Today we have around two thousand undergraduates and about 30 research students. The permanent lecturing staff consists of just over 40 professors and senior lecturers dedicated to both research and teaching. In addition, we have around 100 lecturers employed by the hour – many of them professionally active lawyers – and librarians and staff in various administrative and technical support functions.

The faculty carries out research in all the central areas of law.  Our research environment is also characterised by exciting and innovative ground-breaking research taking place in certain areas of law, such as labour law and international law.  A strong research environment in the area of international environmental law is currently being built up.  Several research projects are interdisciplinary and involve researchers from different areas of law as well as researchers from subject areas other than law such as philosophy, political science, medicine and engineering. In order to ensure the development of a vibrant and sustainable research environment, several young researchers who hold PhD degrees have recently been recruited to the faculty.

Education at the faculty consists of the Swedish degree programme for the legal professions, leading to the degree of Master of Laws (LLM), three international master’s programmes, a research studies programme and a number of free-standing courses.  Some of the free-standing courses are offered as distance education online.  The faculty is engaged in long-term and purposeful work to broaden recruitment of students with different backgrounds.  The students’ learning experience is central to the programme. The highest possible quality in education is a guiding principle and great investment is made into educational development work. Within the framework of the programmes and courses, there is therefore a rich variety of modern forms of proficiency training.  

The first-cycle courses within the Law degree programme are largely based on national law but the element of international law has grown rapidly, in step with internationalisation. Our specialisation courses within the law degree programme and our master’s programmes which are taught in English have an entirely international orientation.

Our premises are located in the centre of Lund, a stone’s throw from the cathedral and the main University building.  The faculty’s library has the Nordic area’s foremost collection of Swedish and international legal literature, filling over 5000 metres of shelf space. There is also a European documentation centre with a very extensive collection of EU documents.

The faculty’s geographical location, in the heart of the Öresund region, brings unique opportunities for boundary-crossing cooperation in the surrounding area; at the same time we also have well developed contacts with different universities throughout the world.  We have a large number of exchange agreements which make it possible for our students to study abroad within the framework of their degree programme, while law students from a host of other countries can study for one or several semesters at our faculty.  For many years, the faculty has hosted a “summer school” which is run for American and Swedish students by the Suffolk University Law School from Boston. For quite a long time now the faculty has also run an aid and development project in Vietnam, aimed at supporting the development of legal education at two of the country’s largest legal departments.