It provides undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Scots and English law, permitting students to qualify into all three United Kingdom legal jurisdictions.

A group of Augustinian clergy, driven from the University of Paris by the Avignon schism and from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge by the Anglo-Scottish Wars, formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, which offered courses of lectures in subjects including law.

Guthrie, at that time an advocate, later became editor of the Journal of Jurisprudence (1867-1874) and of editions of both Erskine and Bell's Principles of the Law of Scotland (1870-1899).

[7][8] This series of lectures was sponsored by the Society of Writers in the city and in particular organised by Sir Thomas Thornton, founder of the eponymous law firm.

In 1967, the independent University of Dundee was created by Royal Charter, incorporating the former Queen's College, including the now School of Law.

Dundee pioneered the "dual qualifying" degree in Scots and English law which has since been rolled out at other Scottish institutions.

Admission is extremely selective; for undergraduate degrees an average of 1,300 applications are received per year for approximately 180 places.

Practitioners, academics and students are invited to attend, to participate and to present papers or lead discussions.

Furthermore, three of the Society's undergraduates represented Scotland in the 37th Edition of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition held at the Peace Palace in the Hague, Netherlands.