Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

The Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge in September 2005
Undergraduates	700
Postgraduates	250
Location	Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom
Campus	Sidgwick Site
Website	www.law.cam.ac.uk

The Faculty of Law, Cambridge is the law school of the University of Cambridge.

The study of law at the University of Cambridge began in the thirteenth century. The faculty sits the oldest law professorship in the English-speaking world, the Regius Professorship of Civil Law, which was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year for which the holder is still chosen by The Crown.^[1][2]

The present-day faculty incorporates the Institute of Criminology as well as 11 Research Centres, including the world's leading research institute for international law, The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. The faculty has 31 professors, six readers, and over 70 other university, faculty and college teaching officers.^{[citation needed]} The student body comprises about 700 undergraduate and 250 postgraduate students. It is also home to the Cambridge University Law Society, the largest student-run law society in the United Kingdom and among the largest in the world.^{[citation needed]}