Throughout every period of our history, great importance has been attached to the education system. Indeed, one of the foremost subjects taught in the madrasahs that formed the backbone of this system was fiqh, i.e., law. Specialization was common in the madrasahs. For instance, the İnceminareli Madrasah, one of the many madrasahs in Konya, was founded as a dârü'l-hadis (house of hadith) where hadith studies were conducted. The Muslihiyye Madrasah, also known as the Sırçalı Madrasah, was primarily focused on fiqh instruction. In the later periods of the Ottoman Empire, particularly during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, schools began to be opened for vocational education.

Until 1907, Turkey had only one law school, located in Istanbul. However, because this school could not meet existing needs, prominent figures of the period submitted a petition to the Sublime Porte (Bâbıâli) citing reasons such as the necessity of training investigating judges (müstantik) and judges, and the Istanbul law school's inability to meet demand. Upon acceptance of this petition, it was decided that new law schools would be opened in Salonica (Selanik), Baghdad, and Konya. On September 10, 1907, notices were sent to these three provinces—whose schools would later form the foundation of our University's Faculty of Law—instructing the establishment of institutions offering legal education. Within this framework, as the first step in the plan to establish a university in Konya, the Konya Law School was founded on Saturday, March 1, 1908, in a large mansion known as the Çelebi Mansion, located in the Sedirler neighborhood near the Mevlânâ lodge, close to what is today the Koyunoğlu Museum. In this respect, the Konya Law School was the first institution of higher education established in Anatolia during the Darülfünun era. The school offered a four-year program of study, and only high school graduates were eligible to enroll. Operating in Konya for 11 years and producing 134 graduates during that time, the school—originally opened as the first stage of a plan to establish a full-fledged university in Konya—was forced to close its doors on March 15, 1919, due to the difficulties experienced during and after World War I.

On July 20, 1982, our Faculty was established under Decree Law No. 41 on the Organization of Higher Education Institutions, and began instruction in the 1983–1984 academic year.

Instruction, which began in a small building in central Konya, later continued at the campus site. Since 2002, the Faculty has continued its education in its current building.

The founding dean of our Faculty was Prof. Dr. Burhan GÜRDOĞAN.

Our Faculty consists of two departments: Public Law and Private Law.

At the end of the 2022–2023 academic year, our Faculty had produced a total of 14,678 graduates.

Our institution's mission is to educate new generations who are committed to the fundamental values of the Republic of Turkey as a social state governed by the rule of law, who possess a strong sense of justice, and who will contribute to our country's legal culture, within the framework of legal legislation. In this light, our Faculty—which operates with the aim of training jurists devoted to the rule of law and respect for human rights—has consistently seen its graduates achieve high levels of success in the Judgeship and Public Prosecutorship examinations administered by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Turkey. Indeed, in the examinations held in 2011, our graduates ranked second nationally. In the 2012 examination, 76 of the 500 candidates who passed were graduates of Selçuk University Faculty of Law. This success has been a well-deserved source of pride for our Faculty's administration and faculty members, as well as for our graduates working as judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and notaries.

Reflecting our institution's commitment to encouraging participation, our Faculty has also set a pioneering example in its field. In this context, in 2010, İsmet YURTERİ, then a third-year student at Selçuk University Faculty of Law, received TÜSİAD's traditional Best Young Jurist Award in the field of Tax Law. Likewise, Assistant Professor Ümit Süleyman ÜSTÜN of Selçuk University was awarded first prize in the traditional competition organized annually by the Çağa Law Foundation, for his study titled "How Tax Auditing and Tax Law."

As a faculty that encourages its students' well-rounded development, theoretical knowledge taught in courses is reinforced through practical exercises, including moot court sessions held with broad participation in the institution's dedicated moot courtroom.

With the understanding that one cannot be scientific without being social, and in keeping with the consciousness of a modern Faculty of Law, our Faculty hosts numerous conferences and panels each year that enjoy national recognition and esteem.

Our institutional library, with a collection of nearly 15,000 books and 42 periodicals, serves as the primary resource first for our Faculty's students and then for researchers and visiting academics who come to our Faculty.

With its strong academic staff, which has become a symbol of quality education, we believe our Faculty can look toward the future with confidence, building on this legacy.