Law and Economics, part I

From the beginnings to the end of the 19th century

With its more than six hundred-year-old history, the jurists can look back at one of the longest traditions at the University of Vienna. Their faculty’s curriculum, originally limited to canonical and Roman law, was extended regularly since the 18th century. This not only included legal disciplines, but also disciplines outside of jurisprudence, particularly economics and statistics, which led to the faculty changing its name in 1848 to “Faculty of Law and Economics”.