西南政法大学（SWUPL）位于著名历史文化名城、中西部地区唯一的直辖市——重庆，是新中国最早建立的高等政法学府，改革开放后国务院确定的全国首批重点大学，教育部和重庆市人民政府共建高校，国家首批卓越法律人才教育培养基地，来华留学生中国政府奖学金委托培养院校。

历经70余载的励精图治，学校已形成以法学为主，哲学、经济学、文学、管理学、工学等多学科协调发展，从本科到硕士、博士研究生教育以及继续教育、留学生教育等多层次、多类型的人才培养格局。办学70多年来，为国家培养了各级各类人才30余万人，是全国培养法治人才最多的高校，有5位校友任中共十九届中央委员、3位校友任中共十九届中央纪委委员，70余位校友担任省部级以上领导职务。曾任或现任国家首席、一级或二级大法官和大检察官的西政毕业生有50余位。

学校坚持国际化发展战略，与近40个国家和地区的180余所高校或机构建立了交流合作关系，开展130余个学生交流项目。与美国、俄罗斯、加拿大、日本、澳大利亚、比利时、以色列等国知名高校合作举办20余个来华留学生短期学术课程项目。现有英国考文垂大学法学本科教育和美国凯斯西储大学法律硕士项目等两个中外合作办学项目，是西部唯一承办法学学科中外合作办学双学位项目的高校。

Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) is located in Chongqing City with the most potentials in China, the upstream area of Yangtze River. Founded in 1950, it is one of the earliest established higher political and legal institutions and the first batch of key universities since the reform and opening up of China. SWUPL is the university with the largest number of legal talents in China. A large number of alumni have become backbones and leading figures in law field and other professions.

In 2018, SWUPL's master's degree of laws was rated as A level by China professional degree assessment of Ministry of Education(MOE), together with Tsinghua University, Wuhan University and Jilin University, becoming the only A level professional degree authorization point in Chongqing. In 2017, in the 4th round of discipline evaluation by MOE, the discipline of law was also rated as A level, together with Peking University, Tsinghua University and so on.

SWUPL is also the key university co-administrated by Ministry of Education and Chongqing Municipality. Now SWUPL has strong international exchange programs all over the world, with more than 90 partner universities from U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and so on. SWUPL has established institutions such as Human Rights Research Institution, the China-ASEAN Law Research Center and so on.

SWUPL consists of 14 schools, including: School of Civil and Commercial law; School of Economic Law; Law School; School of Administrative Law; School of International Law; School of Criminal Investigation; School of Business; School of Economics; School of Foreign Languages; School of Journalism and Communication; School of Politics and Public Administration; School of Marxism; School of Artificial Intelligence Law; School of International Education.