The Universidad de Chile School of Law is the country’s oldest and most prestigious. Founded in 1843, the School has educated the great majority of Chile’s Presidents.

Since 1938 the School has been located in the beautiful Bellavista area of downtown Santiago, at the geographical and cultural heart of the city, across the river and  overlooking the magnificent Andes mountains. It is a place where people from the four cardinal points of our country converge, a traditional place of social encounter. Its main building constitutes one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in Chile. A second building hosts the teachers and departments offices while a third one, known as “Edificio de los Presidentes” – President’s Building – was finished in 2007, adding 7,500 new square meters with top state of the art facilities.

More than 350 professors - including full time, part-time and on hourly basis - teach the Law School’s 2,000 students in a ten semester program, designed as a semi-flexible curriculum including compulsory, elective and optional courses from our Departments that cover the different areas of Law: Private Law, Public Law, Commercial Law, Labor Law, Economic Law, Procedural Law, International Law, Criminal Law and Legal Science. The School has also a large Clinical Law program that includes South America’s first Environmental Law Clinic. On investigation, the school has created several research centers including the Center of Environmental Law (CDA), the Center of Human Rights (CDH), the Center for Justice Studies (CEJ), and the Center of Studies in Informatic Law (CEDI), all of which regularly host special programs, seminars and publish research publications on cutting edge issues.

The recently launched Center on Regulation and Competition (Centro de Regulación y Competencia – RegCom) will deepen the School’s compromise with research on innovative branches of the law.