It teaches law to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as conducting legal research and holding conferences.
The School of Law also offers two postgraduate research degree programmes - the M.Litt.
They are also entitled to take a module in a different field under Trinity's Broad Curriculum programme.
The Law School does not operate in semesters, so the examinations are all at the end of the year, in the May–June period.
Many subjects allocate part of the grade for a major assignment submitted during the year.
It is obligatory for students on these courses to spend their third year on a Socrates exchange, where they study a range of law subjects in a French or German university.
The marks obtained abroad count for 35% of a law and language student's degree grade.
The staff of the Law School includes a number of well-known Irish legal academics and authors of leading textbooks.
The current Head of the Law School is Professor Mark Bell.
A number of lecturers, including Professor Ivana Bacik and William Binchy are known to the public for their involvement in political campaigns.