University of Auckland Law School

The University of Auckland Law School is one of the seven faculties that make up the University of Auckland. It forms part of the city campus but is separate from what is termed the "main campus" which spreads across four blocks, two on each side of Symonds Street. In contrast, the Law School sits between Waterloo Quadrant and Eden Crescent, in buildings formally used by the Auckland High Court. Prior to that, the land was used by an ice cream manufacturer, leading to its nickname "the ice cream factory". One courtroom has been retained unaltered for moots.

The law school is accessible by a right of way down a small hill from Waterloo Quadrant. Originally, this was only a mud track nicknamed the Ho Chi Minh trail but this was paved when the Davis Law Library was completed and replaced Eden Crescent as the main entrance into the Law School grounds.

Until 1991, the Law school was formerly based on the top three floors of the University Library building. Acting Dean Peter Watts confirmed in 2004 that after departments in the Faculty of Business and Economics vacate the main "100" sector to relocate to the Owen G Glenn Building, the Law School will relocate to the area currently occupied by the Commerce A, Commerce B and Upper/Lower Lecture Theatre Buildings. The Davis Law Library will take up residence in Old Choral Hall after an extensive refit, and it is intended that it will contain some of the most advanced mooting facilties in the Southern Hemisphere.

While the project was due to be completed by 2009, when the Law School's current lease with the Melanesian Mission Trust expires, the delay in completing the Owen G Glenn Building and subsequently the vacating of the area earmarked for the new law school development, have cast this timeline into doubt.