The University has invested 23.5 million euros in the construction of a new home for the School of Law on the Moncloa Campus in Madrid. This outlay is in addition to the initial 17-million-euro acquisition of the site. The operation reaffirms the institution’s commitment to educational innovation, sustainability and comprehensive education for students. The building, with a surface area of more than 8,500 m², will open its doors next academic year, 2025-26, and will host close to 1,200 undergraduates, 300 postgraduate students and 150 professors.
With this new building (on the site of the old ‘Nuevo Parque’ Clinic), the University continues to expand its Moncloa Campus, home to the Schools of Law, Economics and Business, and Humanities and Communication.
The future building´s facades of exposed concrete, natural wood and solar glazing will enclose a central atrium with wooden seating areas, designed as a space for students to come together. Advanced air conditioning systems will guarantee comfort and energy efficiency and an underground carpark will have space for over 100 vehicles.
Designed by the Sánchez García architecture studio, the building combines architectural, technological and environmental innovation at the service of future professionals, and comprises three upper floors, a ground and a garden floor (-1) as well as three basements. There will be a total of 20 classrooms, works spaces, offices, meeting rooms, an oratory, a multipurpose assembly hall with a capacity for 120 people, and even a courtroom for courtroom simulations and a pioneering crime laboratory.
The courtroom will be equipped with the technical elements necessary for future legal professionals to be able to replicate a court hearing. Law and International Relations students, with the help of their professors, magistrates and lawyers, will continue to carry out simulations of cases brought before judicial bodies, arbitration and international institutions.
The new space for the pioneering criminalistics laboratory will be larger than its predecessor and will be equipped with advanced technology for the study of the three main areas of classical criminalistics: forensic ballistics, dermatoglyphics, and graphoscopy and forensic document examination.
This combination of the most modern technical facilities, similar to those used in the Criminalistics and Scientific Police laboratories, along with the university´s prestigious teaching body, recognized both nationally and internationally, will ensure second-to-none training for the students of the Degree in Criminology.
Oldest Private Law School in Spain
What was in 1933 the oldest private Law school in Spain, has gone on to develop a creative vision for the teaching of law and scientific fields with the integration into the Faculty of degrees in Political Science, Criminology and Security, and International Relations as well as a Master’s Degree in Access to legal practice, in collaboration with prestigious law firms and other law professionals. A range of other Master’s and postgraduate qualifications are on offer, all of which have been recognized for their outstanding results.