About The Faculty

The Faculty opened its doors on September 1st, 1967 to receive the first batch of its 56 students. This number has been doubling annually.
Since its establishment, the Faculty has adopted the ‘Academic Year’ system. In each year, the student is enrolled in the modules prescribed, and those modules are distributed over four academic years. After passing these modules, the students were granted a bachelor degree in “Law and Sharia law”.
This situation continued until the beginning of the Academic Year 1976, when a different system was adopted. The Faculty Council approved that the student must take 120 units in a period of at least seven semesters and a maximum of fourteen semesters after which the students were qualified to to obtain a bachelor degree in “Law and Sharia Law."
On 10/13/1981, An Amiri decree was enacted to establish the “Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies”. The establishment of this Faculty led to change the name of the “Faculty of Law and Sharia” to become the “Faculty of Law”. Since then, the Faculty of Law has only been granting the degree in law. 
On 7/1/1989, the Kuwait University Council approved the return of the Faculty of Law to the ‘Academic Year’ system. 
Historically, the Academic Year 1971/70 was the first time in which the Faculty of Law granted the Law and Sharia Law degree to a batch of law students. The number of graduates at that time was 22 students.
According to the approval of Kuwait University Council in its Session No. 4/93 on 29/6/1993, the postgraduate programme was launched in the Faculty of Law. Since the Academic Year 1993/1994, the Faculty has been granting master degrees (LLM) in two programmes: Public Law and Private Law. 
The Faculty of Law at Kuwait University has fulfilled the criteria and requirements for the membership of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), which is the institutional evaluation required by the academic accreditation processes.

On 1st of April 1967, an Emiri Decree was issued to establish the Faculty of Law and Sharia. With this decree, the Faculty took its position at Kuwait University to play its role in preparing students for labour market to meet the country's need in this regard.
The Faculty opened its doors on September 1st, 1967 to receive the first batch of its 56 students. This number has been doubling annually.
Since its establishment, the Faculty has adopted the ‘Academic Year’ system. In each year, the student is enrolled in the modules prescribed, and those modules are distributed over four academic years. After passing these modules, the students were granted a bachelor degree in “Law and Sharia law”.
This situation continued until the beginning of the Academic Year 1976, when a different system was adopted. The Faculty Council approved that the student must take 120 units in a period of at least seven semesters and a maximum of fourteen semesters after which the students were qualified to to obtain a bachelor degree in “Law and Sharia Law."
On 10/13/1981, An Amiri decree was enacted to establish the “Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies”. The establishment of this Faculty led to change the name of the “Faculty of Law and Sharia” to become the “Faculty of Law”. Since then, the Faculty of Law has only been granting the degree in law. 
On 7/1/1989, the Kuwait University Council approved the return of the Faculty of Law to the ‘Academic Year’ system. 
Historically, the Academic Year 1971/70 was the first time in which the Faculty of Law granted the Law and Sharia Law degree to a batch of law students. The number of graduates at that time was 22 students.
According to the approval of Kuwait University Council in its Session No. 4/93 on 29/6/1993, the postgraduate programme was launched in the Faculty of Law. Since the Academic Year 1993/1994, the Faculty has been granting master degrees (LLM) in two programmes: Public Law and Private Law. 
The Faculty of Law at Kuwait University has fulfilled the criteria and requirements for the membership of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), which is the institutional evaluation required by the academic accreditation processes.

The College seeks to achieve the following tasks:

• Academic leave rights for graduates.
• Legal science, and contemporary comparison.
• Programme design and scientific curricula to prepare legal student according to the needs of the profession.
• Expansion using education and media theory and practice in the education of students.
• Support other faculties in the University to provide specialized courses, as well as the decisions of the general culture.
• Maintain a low percentage of students compared to the preparation of the Faculty SSRI .
• Expansion of elective courses to broaden students.
• Focus on practical programmes in rehabilitation students.
• Attention to faculty members, and supported by the incentive to creativity and development in a learning environment to ensure creative thinking.
• Promote scientific research university/or compilation, published in specialized legal journals.
• Attention to scientific conferences, symposiums and seminars.
• Interesting exchange of professors between College and university colleagues Arabic and non-Arabic.
• Provide an information base for legal principles, and the creation and preparation of Arabic texts for provisions.
• Work on upgrading the legal level State employees through the training courses of the College.
• Studies and legal consulting for various destinations in or outside the State.
• Contribute to the development of legislation through the involvement of faculty members in specialized committees.
• A closer relationship with the relevant judicial authorities justice facility.

Values:

• Support for academic freedom.
• Perform a message of Justice and right, defend the right of his cases.
• Support efforts to protect human rights and the protection of human dignity and defend it.
• Commitment to ethics and respect its sanctity.