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

Undergraduate Programs at Faculty of Law As with other undergraduate programs at the University of Tokyo, students move from the College of Arts and Sciences to the faculties of Advanced Studies. Faculty of Law offers Bachelor of Laws in Law and Politics. The courses are as follows: • I (General Legal Studies Course) (equivalent to the former course II) • II (Law Profession Course) (equivalent to the former course I) • III (Political Science Course) Courses prior to 2017 are listed below. • I (Private Law Course) • II (Public Law Course) • III (Political Science Course) Graduate programs at Graduate Schools for Law and Politics The Graduate Schools for Law and Politics offers academic programs and a J.D. program (専門職学位課程) equivalent to law school. • School of Legal and Political Studies: • Doctoral Degree in Legal and Political Studies • Master's Degree in Legal and Political Studies • School of Law: • J.D. == Centers ==

The Faculty of Law has three centers as follows. • Law Library, University of Tokyo • Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics (IBC) • Center for Modern Japanese Legal and Political Documents == Alumni ==

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. == See also ==