Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Law faculty in Recoleta, Argentina.

The Faculty of Law at Universidad de Buenos Aires occupies a neoclassical building on Avenida Figueroa Alcorta with grand columns and balanced architecture spanning an entire city block. Students pursue specializations in public law, private law, criminal law, or labor law after completing a mandatory foundation cycle of fourteen required courses.

Founded in 1821 as part of Universidad de Buenos Aires, the institution became one of the nation's most influential law schools. Throughout its history, it has educated sixteen presidents of Argentina.

The faculty's name appears on the blue banner hanging on the Figueroa Alcorta facade, and its graduates include Carlos Saavedra Lamas, who won the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating an end to the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay and later became rector of the university in 1941. Sixteen Argentine presidents studied here, among them Hipólito Yrigoyen, Raúl Alfonsín and Alberto Fernández, who taught criminal law before his election.

The complex faces Avenida Figueroa Alcorta in Recoleta and is served by Facultad de Derecho station on Line H of the Buenos Aires Underground. The main entrance is reached by the wide staircase beside the colonnade; the grassy slope and road in front separate it from the avenue.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas, a 1936 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first from Latin America, studied law here and later became rector of the university in 1941. Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, earned his degree at the faculty in 1978.