Extensive range of courses offered; Broad spectrum of basic courses; wide array of specialist studies; distinct international focus; research results have a direct influence on the content and range of courses offered; Extensive range of key skills; Various supplementary and postgraduate courses; inter-disciplinary range of courses offered; Subject-specific foreign language training in three languages; Exam workshop (one-on-one advice); Seminar exercises; Extensive university revision course and comprehensive range of Unirep Online services (learning platform, etc.); Revision working group.

Professorship of Foreign and International Law appointed in the 2016/17 winter semester; Establishment of a Centre of Advanced Legal Studies in the summer semester 2016; Numerous presentations by visiting academics from around the world; A large number of the professorships are characterised by their international orientation; A large number of long-term partnership agreements with universities around the world, which promote both student mobility (particularly high number of outgoing students, approx. 200 per academic year) and academic mobility.

Extensive national and international databases (e.g. Juris, beck-online, Westlaw, Heine-Online), some with remote access for students; comprehensive laptop workstations in the library; Meeting rooms; CIP rooms with large monitors for better research; internal WAP programme to improve the IT facilities for academics; Lecture halls fully equipped with projectors, cameras, video conferencing equipment, etc.; whiteboards in all seminar rooms of the faculty; I-displays for up-to-date information in front of the libraries.

Broad spectrum of research; Balanced mixture of subject-focused research and inter-disciplinary research; Recognised internationally; Orientation towards social change (e.g. in the field of artificial intelligence, ITM, criminology)