With this greeting, we would first like to welcome you to the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València and thank you for the interest you show when browsing its website. Our centre is open to all members of the university community, either students, faculty or administrative and service staff, or even curious people who want to get to know us (and who knows, perhaps even join this great community in the future) and, of course, to all those who will one day graduate from our classrooms and want to keep in touch and receive news of the constant activity of the Faculty.

The Faculty's website aims to provide you with a great deal of information, from those activities that are characteristic of academic activities (congresses, conferences, symposiums, etc.) to the administrative procedures and formalities that are usually carried out in our offices (pre-enrolment, enrolment, validations, timetables and exams, etc.). But it also gives you an idea of the research (basic and applied) that we do, notes and details of our history, news of the activity of the AdR and the entire student body, the improvements that we are gradually introducing, the triumphs and achievements of the oratory and argumentation teams or our athletes, drafts of the first jobs and professional opportunities for graduates, the "Pensat i Dret" competition, links to our social networks... All of this has a place on the website that you are now visiting, and with the greatest transparency that we are capable of. We also want it to be a dynamic and participatory tool and, therefore, from the Office of the Dean we will be attentive to your demands and suggestions to make, between all of us, an even better Faculty.

The Faculty of Law at the Universitat de València has more than five centuries of history, and is one of the oldest in Spain. Throughout this history, now collected in a splendid monograph, it has become (first as a double Faculty of Law and Canons, and since the 19th century, of Law) the reference in the training of jurists, politicians, liberal professionals, civil servants of all kinds, as well as presidents and ministers of the national government, of the Valencian Government, of the Provincial Councils of our Community, councillors and mayors have been trained in our classrooms, thus forming a staff of graduates unparalleled in Valencian lands. Just think that 20 of the 99 deputies elected to the Valencian Parliament in April 2019 have been trained in the Faculty: a real school of leadership for centuries! It has also contributed a large number of professionals to the Notary's Office, the Property Registries, the Legal Profession and the Judiciary, the Public Prosecutor's Office and even the whole world of literature (Blasco Ibáñez, Azorín, Manuel Vicent).

But this long history, which shapes a tradition that we do not wish to renounce, is combined with the modernity that demands constant adaptation to the changes and requirements of the professional and social world. Currently, the Faculty of Law of the UV, the largest in the Valencian Community, offers degrees in the fields of Law, Political Science and Public Administration, and Criminology and Security. This educational offer is complemented by eleven official master's degrees, a doctoral programme with eleven different lines of research, and a large number of its own courses and postgraduate programmes. It also has a solid international presence through the High Performance Law group (with teaching in English), the double degree programmes and several student and faculty mobility programmes. Likewise, the Faculty is firmly committed to quality and innovation in teaching, as a result of which a large number of lecturers have been awarded prizes and recognition for teaching quality. The combination of all this means that, year after year, students from the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València are among the winners of the national prizes for undergraduate studies, as well as the prizes awarded in the Valencian Community for the best academic records.

The training offer is complemented by an incessant research activity that has led the Faculty of Law to become the reference centre for social sciences at the Universitat de València: there are more than twenty consolidated research groups, and more than one hundred R&D&I projects have been obtained in competitive calls over the last decade (with nearly six and a half million euros of additional funding). The "Jean Monnet" chairs and actions, the institutional chairs (more than ten), the number of pre- and post-doctoral grants obtained, the volume of publications and the number of six-year research fellowships recognised confirm the leadership of the Faculty of Law in this field.

All this academic activity takes place in the facilities of the Tarongers Campus. Here we find the two main buildings (the Faculty and the Aulario Norte), as well as the Social Sciences Library (the largest in legal sciences in the Community, and one of the largest in Spain) and the sports complex. These are modern and functional facilities, located very close to the sea and with unbeatable communications with the historic centre and the main districts of the city.

The academic activities, the research, the facilities, the history that has been shaped? everything is designed and takes place with you in mind: the students who study in the classrooms, the teaching staff who join us for a research stay, the men and women who once studied at the centre and still remember it fondly and, above all, the people who work here every day. Together, we make the Faculty bigger every day and continue to write the story of its centuries-long history.