The Law School is located in the historic centre of the city of Ghent. While occupying a number of historic buildings from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, it has modern teaching facilities including excellent libraries and well-equipped computer facilities.
The Law School offers academic degrees in law, criminology and notary practice, as well as postgraduate programmes in International and European law, the economic analysis of law, environmental law, port and maritime sciences and criminology. The official teaching language is Dutch, except for specific English language postgraduate programmes such as the LLM programmes.
The faculty consists of more than 80 professors and about 90 assistants who, in addition to teaching, are extensively engaged in research, writing, lecturing and public service.