From the time of its founding in 1966, the Faculty of Law consisted of a single Department of Law, but in 2001 a reform of the department introduced a new Department of Modern Business Law. With its restructuring into two departments, it is now possible to offer even broader and more methodical legal training addressing the issues confronting legal studies within the contemporary social dynamics of globalization, the information revolution, and an aging population producing fewer children－issues such as the environment, business, consumer rights, equality of the sexes, juvenile crime, intellectual property ,and so forth. It also offers even more effective instruction geared to the needs of students preparing for the various legal qualifying examinations and the civil service exams. More than ever, the Faculty emphasizes small-class instruction and makes seminars that provide opportunities for close interaction with professors compulsory in each of the four years.

No matter how far society may progress, law provides its common rules. The ability to think legally is essential acquisitions.

In the Faculty of Law we aim at producing members of society who are equipped with the ability to think legally. The Department of Law offers a traditional legal curriculum focused on the study of the domestic legal system with the Constitution at its apex, and emphasizing the Six Codes defining Japan's civil and criminal law and procedures. The Department of Modern Business Law is geared to responding to the globalization of corporate activity and the information revolution in our society through the study of law pertaining to international trade and intellectual property. Laws are constantly being made and revised to keep up with social change, and new courses on real estate law, victimology, legal gender studies, and juvenile law have been established in the Department of Law as well, out of the Faculty's commitment to broad-based study of law and legal practice that is always responsive to the demands of the times.