There are currently 19 professors at the Faculty of Law of Kiel University. In addition, external lecturers provide for an insight into specific issues of legal practice. The Faculty offers a comprehensive study programme with many opportunities to specialise in specific branches of law.

The Faculty has a particular teaching and research focus in the field of the history and the philosophy of law as well as economic law and international and comparative law. Amongst the Faculty's staff are some of the leading legal scholars in Germany and beyond.