The Department of Law was founded in 1963 and maintains eighteen full professors, their staff and numerous renowned associate lecturers that research and teach.

Close ties to legal and business practice, combined with an interdisciplinary profile in the economic sciences, are hallmarks of the Department of Law.

It enables students to study law and business simultaneously[2] and ends after 6 semesters (3 years) with a bachelor's degree.

It is the first bachelor's degree in Germany which can be followed up with a master's (graduate) programme in business, a master's (graduate) programme of law or the German state examination in law (Staatsexamen) (German government licensing examination).

The department owns a library collection of more than 350,000 volumes in German as well as other languages (mostly English) and subscribes to 400 journals.