Sydney Law School

Sydney Law School
Shield of Sydney Law School
Established	1855
School type	Public
Parent endowment	A$1.8 billion (2013)
Dean	Joellen Riley
Location	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Enrollment	3,300
Faculty	78 (permanent)
Website	sydney.edu.au/law

Sydney Law School (informally Sydney Law or SLS) is the law school at the University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university. Sydney Law School began a full program of legal instruction in 1890 following the appointment of its first Dean, having offered legal examinations since 1855.

Sydney Law School is widely regarded as being one of Australia's top law schools. In 2016, QS World University Rankings ranked the law school 11th in the world for law and legal studies (2nd nationally). The Social Science Research Network ranks the law school as 1st in Australia and 5th in the world in the number of downloads of academic papers which have been uploaded to its website. Sydney Law School has won the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition on four occasions: in 1996, 2007, 2011 and 2015.

The law school has produced many leaders in law and politics, including current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and five other Prime Ministers, four Federal Opposition Leaders, two Governors-General, nine Federal Attorneys-General, and 24 out of 50 Justices of the High Court—more than any other law school in Australia. The school has also produced 24 Rhodes Scholars and several Gates Scholars.

Sydney Law School has approximately 1,700 undergraduate students; 1,500 postgraduate coursework students; and 100 postgraduate research students. There are now 24 chairs, including the Challis Professors of Law, Jurisprudence and International Law. In 2010, the School replaced its graduate-entry LL.B. degree with the Juris Doctor degree. The LL.B. degree remains as part of an undergraduate double degree program.