The Faculty today has 55 employees at research, associate and teaching positions, as well as 32 emloyees in administrative, technical and maintenance positions. Five distinguished professors are nowadays the Faculty’s professores emeriti: Ivan Mecanović, former Rector of the University of Osijek, Vladimir Srb, one of the first Deans, Branko Babac, former Croatian Minister of Justice and Administration and Ombudsman, Vladimir Ljubanović member of State’s Attorney Council and president of the Amnesty Commition, as well as Zvonimir Lauc member of Judiciary Council and founder of the Croatian Institute for Local Self-government (HILS). Since its foundation, more than 5168 law graduates and 663 masters of law have completed the studies at the Faculty of Law, and since the foundation of the Professional Study of Administrative Law in 1982, more than 1,030 administrative lawyers and bachelors of administrative law graduated from the Faculty as well. Faculty annually enrolls about 400 students.
The first postgraduate studies started in 1978, whereas the procedure of gaining the doctor of science degree has been independently carried out by the Faculty since 1981. The title of doctor of social sciences in the field of law has been obtained by 40 people to date, and the specialist postgraduate studies of the Development of Local and Regional Self-Government and Criminal Law are currently attended by several dozens of students. Many among distinguished Croatian judges, state attorneys, legal practitioners, university teachers, judges of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, diplomats, Croatian Parliament members and government officials, politicians, employees of civil society organisations, social welfare system, pension and health insurance system, insurance companies, renowned domestic and international companies, professionals working in the economy, at international organisations and academic and research institutions obtained their degrees at the Faculty of Law in Osijek. Their activities and achievements have in the past thirty-five years fully justified the Faculty’s existence.
Ever since its beginnings, the Faculty has been located at the premises of the Jewish Community, a Secession-style edifice built in 1900. Over the years, it has gradually expanded to a neighbouring building at Stjepana Radića Street 17 and another location at the University Campus, with plans in motion to permanently house the only “tenant” faculty within the University.
