This structure was proposed by Mikhail Lomonosov in his letter to Ivan Shuvalov, the first curator of the university.

For the first ten years of the faculty's existence, the only professor had been one Philipp Heinrich Dilthey of the University of Vienna, who had based his lectures on the works by Samuel von Pufendorf.

Semyon Desnitsky, one of the Faculty of Law's first alumni and Langer's student, was the first professor to teach in Russian.

German legal scholars Johann Gottlieb Buhle and Christian Steltzer were among the faculty's professor at that time.

Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolay Ogarev, Andrey Krayevsky studied at the Faculty of Law at that time.

During the Soviet era, such jurists as Andrey Vyshinsky, Fyodor Kozhevnikov, Stepan Kechekjan, Aron Trainin, Grigory Tunkin lectured at the Faculty of Law.