The first lecture was held in the building of the Palace of Justice (today's Rectorate and Faculty of Law) on 14 October 1952.
[1] The faculty continued to operate during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-1995, awarding 278 graduates and 10 master's degrees, 1 specialist thesis and 4 doctoral dissertations.
A modern Library Information Center opened in 2001, hosting about 110,000 books and over 2,000 magazine titles.
[1] The schools is hosted in a building dating from 1899, and designed by architect Rudolf Tönnies in Neo-Romanesque, right next to the Sarajevo Orthodox Cathedral from 1872, with which it stylistically expressed a close relationship.
The Orthodox seminary was relocated from Reljevo to the building in 1917, and operated here for all the 1920s and 1930s, together with the "Serbian primary school for boys and girls".
[3] During the occupation of Sarajevo by the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in the Second World War, the building was used as a police office and prison.