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Kyoto University

Kyoto
Japan

+81-75-753-7531

www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en

Best in History

Best moot court performance of the law school throught out the recorded history (2013-2025)

About the Law School

Kyoto University (京都大学, Kyōto daigaku), or Kyodai (京大, Kyōdai) is a national university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university in Japan and one of the former Imperial Universities, a Designated National University, and was selected as a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by the Japanese government. The university is usually ranked among the top two in Japan, top 10 in Asia, and the world's top thirty institutions of higher education. It is also the birthplace of the well-known Kyoto School.
Kyoto University has generated 5 prime ministers of Japan to date, and is also famed for producing world-class researchers, including 19 Nobel Prize laureates, 2 Fields medalists, and one Gauss Prize winner. It has the most Nobel laureates of all universities in Asia.