The Faculty of Law is the oldest law faculty in Ethiopia. It was inaugurated on September 23rd 1963. The Faculty was established with the purpose of training legal professionals who would meet the ever increasing demand for trained lawyers at the time. During its formative years, the Faculty was exclusively staffed by expatriate academic staff. Although the Faculty was facing many difficulties at the time such as the lack of literature on Ethiopian law and the diversity of the sources of Ethiopian laws, within a very short period of time it could boast a number of accomplishments. Chief among these accomplishments would be the establishment of the Faculty’s very own library with a collection of 5,000 books on a very diverse and wide area of the law. There was also an active students association that was, among others, administering its own Honor System through an Honor Board. The Faculty was also running a regular program leading to an LL.B degree for students who already had a two year prior university education and who had a high overall academic record. Furthermore, the Faculty had a four year part-time LL.B program, an evening certificate and diploma programs. Another notable accomplishment of the Faculty was the launching of the Journal of Ethiopian Law which is still the flagship of the Faculty and the publication of a number of text-books on various areas of the law that are being widely used even today. Another milestone would be the establishment of the Graduate Program of the Faculty in 2001. So far a total of about 2556 students with a bachelor in law (LL.B), 1000 students with a diploma in law and 1733 students with a certificate in law and 107 students with a graduate degree in law (LL.M) have graduated from the Faculty.