History
The Faculty opened on 1 March 1971 with 219 undergraduate students. Prior to this, only the University of Sydney offered law degrees in New South Wales. The task of establishing the new law school was given to Hal Wootten QC, who was appointed Foundation Dean in 1969. When it was first started, it was just a one-man unit in a wooden hut. Within two years of opening its doors, the Law Faculty had outgrown "The Huts" and, via other interim homes, in 1976 moved to occupy five floors of the UNSW Library Tower. In 2006 the Faculty moved to a new law building on lower campus.
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