Established in 1980, TNU’s Law major was the first of undergraduate law-related majors in Tianjin. In 2003, the School of Law was established as the first of its kind in the city. The school offers a first-level discipline master's program in Law, and enrolls master's students in the following six fields: Legal History, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Economic Law, Civil and Commercial Law, Procedural Law, and Criminal Law. Additionally, the school also offers a Juris master program. In 2019, the school’s Law major was approved as a nationally recognized first-class undergraduate program.

The school has over 1,200 students and has a teaching faculty of 53 members, 90 percent of whom have a PhD. More than two-thirds of the staff hold high-level professional titles and are qualified as postgraduate supervisors, two of whom are doctoral supervisors. They have been approved as a national-level demonstration teaching team and a research and innovation team for higher education institutions in Tianjin. The school also employs over 30 renowned legal scholars as part-time professors, and over 60 experts as practice supervisors.

The school places great emphasis on the comprehensive development of students and actively promotes teaching reforms and curriculum development. Two municipal-level teaching reform projects have been approved, along with one national-level course and three municipal-level courses. It also organizes extracurricular activities such as the "Life Lecture Series" and "Legal Practice Lecture Series"; invites experts and alumni with rich practical experience to share their experience; builds on-campus and off-campus teaching and practical bases, with units like the Higher People's Court of Tianjin, the People's Procuratorate of Tianjin, and the Tianjin Lawyers Association, to enrich its teaching content.

The school places great emphasis on strengthening its scientific research platform. It is president of the Economic Law Branch and Civil Law Branch of the Tianjin Law Society, as well as the Tianjin Legal Logic Research Association. To support its research endeavors, the school has built several municipal-level research bases, such as the Tianjin Civil Prosecution Research Base and the Intellectual Property Crime Prevention Research Base, as well as three university-level research centers, two university-level think tanks, and two college-level research centers. Its publication Tianjin Binhai Law Journal has joined the CNKI network. In the past five years, the school has undertaken more than 100 scientific research projects and published more than 30 monographs and textbooks, as well as nearly 1,000 papers, receiving ten scientific research awards at or above the provincial (ministry) level.

Among its faculty, two serve as legal advisers to the municipal government, nine have been selected as experts in the municipal government's think tank in law, nine serve as legislative consulting experts for the standing committee of the municipal people's congress, one serves as the director of the municipal court's disciplinary committee, and fifteen have served as members of the national legal publicity and education lecturer team. The school was jointly awarded the title of "Advanced Unit for the Promotion and Education of China’s Rule of Law from 2011 to 2015" by the Ministry of Propaganda and the Ministry of Justice in 2016.