烟台大学法学院始创建于1984年，前身是由北京大学法律系直接援建的烟台大学法律系，刑法学教授杨殿升为第一任主任;民法学教授郭明瑞为第二任主任;刑诉法学教授汪建成为第三任主任。1999年由系改院，民法学教授房绍坤为第一任院长，法理学教授汤唯为第二任院长，经济法学教授金福海为第三任院长，民法学教授张平华为第四任院长。

The School of Law of Yantai University was originally established in 1984 by the name of the Department of Law of the University with the direct aid of the Faculty of Law, Peking University. Criminal Law Professor Yang Dian-sheng was the first dean, Civil Law Professor Guo Ming-rui was the second, and Criminal Procedure Law Professor Wang Jian-cheng the third. In 1999, the Department was renamed as the School, with Civil Law Professor Fang Shao-kun as the first Dean, and Professor of Jurisprudence Tang Wei as the second, and Economic Law Professor Jin Fu-ha as the third. and Civil Law Professor Zhang Ping-hua as the fourth.

除专任教师外，法学院聘请一批海内外知名学者担任客座和兼职教授，形成了一支由海内外名师组成高水平兼职教师队伍。聘请奥地利国家科学院院士、欧州侵权法研究院创始院长Homulet Koziol教授、英国Bristol大学法学院Ken Oliphant教授、英国林肯大学法学院院长Dunken French教授、加拿大麦吉尔大学李国利教授、台湾东吴大学校长潘维大教授等为客座教授，聘请北京大学、清华大学、中国人民大学、中国政法大学等名校的多名学者担任客座教授，此外还从司法实务部门聘请了一批具有深厚学术造诣以及丰富实践经验的学者和法官担任兼职教授。

In addition to its full-time teaching staff, the School has also hired a number of renowned scholars and experts worldwide as its guest professors and part-time professors. This high level part-time staff team is lucky to have Professor Homulet Koziol(Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Austria, founding director of European Tort Law Institute), Professor Ken Oliphant (Law School of Bristol University, Britain), Professor Dunken French (Dean of Law School of Lincoln University), Professor Li Guoli (McGill University, Canada), Professor Pan Weida (President of SooChow University, Taiwan), and a number of legal scholars and judges with rich practical experience and great academic achievements from Beijing University, Renmin University of China, China University of Political Science and law and other famous universities and judicial departments.