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Faculty of Law & Political Science
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FACULTY OF LAW & POLITICAL SCIENCE
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DEPARTMENTS
1- Civil Law
2- Islamic Law & Philosophy
3- Penal Law
4- Public Law
5- Commercial Law
6- Civil Procedures
7- International Public Law
8- International Private Law
9- History of Law
10- Economic & Public Finance
11- Political Science
HISTORY
The Faculty of Law was established in 1960 as one of the earliest faculties at BAU. Since
then, this faculty has strived for excellence and provided Lebanon and the Middle East with quality
Law graduates.
The faculty actively pursues the developments in the legal profession and revises its
programs accordingly. Realizing the need for legal specialization, the faculty introduced two
postgraduate Diplomas in 1993; one in Private Law and the other in Public Law. Then in 1998, for
the benefit of all the Political Science graduates in Lebanon and the region, the Diploma of
International and Diplomatic Relations was added to its postgraduate programs.
Furthermore, in 2005, the faculty council expanded its academic forte and launched the
Department of Political Science to complement the already offered Diploma in the field.
In 2006, the faculty added three more postgraduate Diplomas in the fields of Political
Science, Administrative & Financial Science, and International Trade. These diplomas were
launched because of Globalization as well as local changes to taxation laws introduced by the
Lebanese Ministry of Finance (MoF). Moreover, the faculty took this initiative in order to address
concerns raised by the MoF about Lebanese Law graduates, in general, lacking tax