For over a century, the Faculty of Law, founded in 1899, and the Graduate School of Law have played the central role both in the teaching and research activities of law and political science in Japan. As for teaching, the Faculty/School has been committed to strengthening students’ abilities to further their knowledge, opinion, wisdom and logical thinking, as well as to nurturing their spirits of intellectual autonomy by inspiring their will of search and sense of initiatives which derive from their own critical views. In research, the Faculty/School has been devoted to searching for truth through free dialogues and discussions and has successfully made a considerable and unique contribution by engaging with the world and actively dealing with key issues of the society in any given period.