University of Warsaw Law Faculty Launches New Program for 2025/2026 Academic Year

The University of Warsaw's Faculty of Law and Administration is set to introduce a revamped study program for the 2025/2026 academic year, designed to equip students with skills relevant to pressing modern issues. Dean Sławomir Żółtek highlighted the program's focus on areas such as energy transformation, cybersecurity, data protection, and the legal implications of AI and new technologies.

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What sets our offer apart is, above all, the new study program, in effect from the 2025/2026 academic year, which gives students a real opportunity to build their own professional profile.

Founded in 1808, the faculty is the oldest at the University of Warsaw and remains highly popular, with over 3,100 candidates applying for law studies in the upcoming academic year. The new program aims to provide a robust foundation in legal thinking and argumentation, progressing from core civil, criminal, and administrative law to specialized practical training.

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The program addresses the most important challenges of our time: energy transformation, cybersecurity, personal data protection, new technologies law, AI, legal tech, and advanced issues of intellectual property in the digital space.

Departing from a purely lecture-based model, the faculty is integrating more workshops, real-case analyses, and mock court proceedings. "Students not only learn the regulations but also learn to argue, negotiate, solve problems, and act in practice," stated Andrzej Bielecki, vice-dean for student affairs. The program also offers flexibility through elective courses, career path specialization, and international opportunities like the Erasmus+ program and the 4EU+ initiative.

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Studies lead students from the basics of legal thinking, analysis of regulations and argumentation, through the foundations of civil, criminal, and administrative law, to specialization, practice, and entry into the professional market.

Its Warsaw location provides students with close access to courts, ministries, major law firms, and public institutions. This blend of tradition and modernity, according to Dean Żółtek, prepares students for both classic legal careers and emerging fields shaping the future of law. The curriculum remains identical for both publicly funded and fee-paying students, with the only difference being the absence of mandatory physical education for the latter.

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Workshops, analysis of real cases, simulations of court proceedings, moot courts, debates, and projects carried out with practitioners are playing an increasingly important role.