The Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales is a law school situated in Sydney, Australia. The Faculty is one of the most innovative and prestigious law schools in Australia. The Faculty comprises the School of Law and 12 affiliated research and specialist legal centres. Currently, the Faculty teaches approximately 3000 students. 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. A new law building, located on lower campus, opened to students in July 2006. The building was officially opened on 21 September 2006 by Chief Justice of Australia Murray Gleeson. The new building is four storeys high and was designed by Melbourne architects Lyons.
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