On March 25, 1964, through State Decree No. 187, published in the State Official Gazette on April 4 of the same year, the Faculty of Law was created (State Law No. 15, of September 8, 1964). It was later recognized by Opinion No. 660, of September 4, 1970, of the Federal Council of Education, and by Presidential Decree No. 67,534, of November 11, 1970.

The University Center of Acre became the University of Acre on January 22, 1971, under the Foundation regime, being integrated by the Faculties of Law and Economic Sciences. The federalization of the University of Acre was realized on April 5, 1974, through Law No. 6,025.

The Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), through the national contract between CAPES and IEEE has an unlimited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between 5 November 2024 – 30 October 2027. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC). Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submi​​ssion. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an OA administrator at CAPES. Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.