Soongsil University College of Law
Soongsil University College of Law is part of Soongsil University (SSU), a private Christian university in South Korea. The campus is located in 511 Sangdo-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul. From its earliest days in the late 1800s, the University has offered instruction in law. Soongsil University is similar to many colleges and universities in South Korea in that it was founded by early Christian missionaries. The University was founded on October 10, 1897 in Pyongyang as a private school by Dr. William M. Baird, a missionary of the Northern Presbyterian Church of America. In 1900 the school was developed into an official 4-year junior high school. In October 1901 the school was named Soongsil Hakdang (숭실학당, "Soongsil Academy"). In 1905 the Hakdang was permitted by the missionary body to establish a college, called Union Christian College. Law is part of the curriculum from the very beginning. Early law classes included “Civil Law”, “Debate and Argument”, and “Rhetoric”. In April 1954 Soongsil College was reestablished in South Korea. The Department of Law was one of the original four colleges that constituted the reborn college. In June 1957, Soongsil moved to its present-day Sangdo-dong Campus. In 1971 the College merged with Daejun College (대전대학