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The predecessor of the Law School of Guangxi University was the Law Department of the former Guangxi University School of Liberal Arts and Law. This school was established in 1937 and began to enroll students in February 1937. It waslocated in Liziyuan and Liangfeng Xilin Park, Guilin City. In 1941, the Department of Law was transferred to the former Law Business School of the former National Guangxi University. In 1952, due to the national restructuring of universities, the faculty and students of the Law Department of Guangxi University were all merged into Zhongnan University of Political Science and Law (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law).

In 1983, with the approval of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Law Department of Guangxi University officially resumed operation. It began enrollment of undergraduates in that very year, and began to enroll master's students in 1994. In September 1997, the Law School of Guangxi University was formally established. In 2002, the school moved into the current site of Grammar Building (Yulin Building). In 2007, the school obtained the right to confer master's degrees in first-level disciplines of law and the right to confer the LL.M. degree.In 2011 it was included in the first batch of applied and compound legal talent education training bases of the Ministry of Education, and in 2021 it entered the list of the first batch of "new liberal arts" projects of the Ministry of Education. The law major was listed as a national first-class undergraduate major development point in 2019.

The school has 41 full-time teachers, 648 undergraduate students and 567 master's students. At present, the school has three key research platforms: the Guangxi Autonomous Region Key Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Legislative Base of the Standing Committee of the Guangxi Autonomous Region People's Congress, and the Procuratorial Theory Research Base of the Guangxi Autonomous Region People's Procuratorate. In the past five years, it has undertaken 36 provincial and ministerial projects such as major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, China Law Society, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice and Guangxi Philosophy and Social Sciences. Scholars from the school have published more than 40 academic papers in "Chinese Social Sciences" and key journals of law. Over the past 40 years, the school has fostered more than 7,500 bachelor's and master's graduates, with a large number of alumni devoting themselves to the field of legal practice and legal education, while some rising as elites in the legal industry.

In recent years, the school has deeply implemented Xi Jinping Thought on the rule of law, optimized the path of talent training, exploredand practiced foreign-related rule of law talent training, and the project "Practical Exploration and Theoretical Innovation of the Training of High-end Legal Talents Related to ASEAN" won the first prize of the autonomous region-level teaching achievement, and the quality of talent training is constantly improving. The school has always paid attention to the role of the national and local "think tanks" for the promotion of the rule of law, participated in-depth in local legislative research and consulting services for the autonomous region, and held the "International Seminar on the Legal System Development of International Investment and Trade and Free Trade Zones", etc. All these endeavors provide theoretical foundation and intellectual support for serving the national “Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)” and promoting China’s comprehensive rule of law.