The Faculty of Law participates in the university's Fields of Excellence Smart Regulation, Climate Change as well as Dimensions of Europeanization.

Their concerns were not only of a financial nature, but rather about a potential loss of status of the faculties of Theology and Philosophy within the university.

At the beginning of the 17th century, discussions arose on adding a faculty of law to the University of Graz.

The university was put under state custodianship and entered into its second, more eventful period, which lasted until 1848 The Faculty of Law was established on May 30, 1778, by court decree (Gubernal-Intimat of June 23) about the Overall organization of the university and the unification of legal studies into a public juridical study with two professors (Winkler and Tiller) in two yearly courses.

[6] On January 26, 1827, Emperor Franz I approved the re-establishment of the University of Graz under the name Universitas Carola-Franciscea.

[5] The most significant curricular change in the history of the Faculty of Law were the "Study and State Examination Regulations" issued by Minister of Education Leo von Thun-Hohenstein on October 2, 1855.

[4]This reform set the course for the further development of law, social sciences and economics as academic disciplines in the following century and a half.

In April 1919, women were allowed to enroll in law and political science; Leopoldine Schmidt was the first woman to receive a doctorate in law, on July 14, 1923; Johanna Kodolitsch-Beer was the first woman to receive a doctorate in political science, on December 19, 1925.

[7] Also in 1919, the Minister of Education Otto Glöckel determined that professors at Austria's law faculties should no longer be appointed for a specific subject, but only for "legal sciences".

On the other hand, this had the consequence that for a long time important subjects did not have their own chair, because the coverage of teaching had already been taken care of.

The former Rector of the University of Graz and Minister of Social Affairs Josef Dobretsberger, Professor of Political Economy, was also immediately dismissed because of his membership, and the same fate befell Wilhelm Taucher.

Taucher was not only professor of national economy, but also minister of trade in the interwar period and later went on to become commissioner of the Marshall Plan.

[5] As early as May 30, 1945, the Provisional Government of Styria issued the order to start lectures "as well as the other academic and teaching operations" immediately.

[9] Until 1996 it was located in the main building of the University of Graz, which had been solemnly dedicated on June 4, 1895, with many departments spread over the campus and the city center.

In the early 1970s, discussions began regarding a new building for the Faculty of Law and Political Science; on March 7, 1994, the official groundbreaking ceremony took place, and on June 1, 1996, the first departments moved into the ReSoWi Center.