The university Senate and Council of the Kwara State University, Malete (KWASU) approved the establishment of the Faculty of Law in the year 2018. The faculty took off with three programmes, namely Business and Private Law, Jurisprudence and Public Law and Islamic Law. There are three departments in the Faculty of Law. The Department of Business and Private Law was one of the three departments in the faculty. It has two (2) Visiting Professors, one of whom is a High Court Judge and who was the pioneer Head of the Department, two Senior Lecturer and two contract staff. The Department of Jurisprudence and Public Law, which was one of the three foundation departments, runs the two programmes. It has seven academic staff, including one Full Professor and an Associate Professor, one Senior Lecturer, two Lecturer I and one Lecturer II.