course is limited to 150 students per year as numerus clausus, under national government's policy to keep number of enrollments in sustainable level.

[3] The law school was established in its first iteration in 1895 during the Joseon Dynasty as the Judicial Officials Training Institute.

Following the April Revolution, a student-led revolution which would lead to the end of the autocratic regime of Syngman Ree, enrollment was sharply and suddenly reduced by the government from three hundred students to one hundred and sixty, based on its assumption that the law school was the center of the protests.

[4] Established in August 1946, the Seoul National University Law Library opened on June 30, 2014.

The SNU Law School has been criticized due to the lack of admitted students older than 30 years of age.