San Ildefonso N° 28
esq. República de Argentina
Centro Histórico
06020, México D.F.

The Jurisprudence Establishment was founded in 1833 when the University was shut down. The newly created, independent school was first housed in the Old Jesuit College of San Ildefonso.

In 1868 the National Preparatory School was founded; the Jurisprudence School was moved to the Ex-Convent of the Incarnation and later to the Ex-Convent of la Enseñanza. In 1908, it was definitively installed in newly rebuilt quarters on the site of the old convent of Santa Catalina de Siena.

In 1910, at the behest of Public Instruction Minister Justo Sierra, one of its illustrious alumni, the School of Law became part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The building officially became a UNAM holding in 1948.

With the inauguration of the University City campus, the Faculty of Law moved out of the old structure in 1954 to occupy its current building. The old building became home to the Faculty of Law Alumni Association.

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