Graduate Schools for Law and Politics and Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo

Faculty of Law (東京大学法学部) is one of the 10 constituent faculties, and Graduate Schools for Law and Politics (東京大学大学院法学政治学研究科) is one of the constituent 15 graduate schools at the University of Tokyo. The Faculty and the Graduate School operate as one.

Faculty of Law is one of the oldest 4 faculties (Science, Medicine, Law and Letters) of the University of Tokyo and the oldest law school in Japan. Most of Japan's high-level bureaucrats are graduates of the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law, and it has long produced political and judicial establishment in Japan.

Fifteen Japanese prime ministers are graduates of this Faculty, (Takaaki Kato, Reijiro Wakatsuki, Osachi Hamaguchi, Koki Hirota, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Kijuro Shidehara, Shigeru Yoshida, Tetsu Katayama, Hitoshi Ashida, Ichiro Hatoyama, Nobusuke Kishi, Eisaku Sato, Takeo Fukuda, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Kiichi Miyazawa). As of February 2025, two thirds of the justiceships at the Supreme Court of Japan (11 out of 15) are held by alumni of this faculty.

Outside Japan, the faculty is the alma mater of all four Japanese judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ): Kōtarō Tanaka, Shigeru Oda, Hisashi Owada and Yuji Iwasawa. Yuji Iwasawa has served as the president of the ICJ since March 2025. Tomoko Akane has served as the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since March 2024.