This study aims to evaluate the works the medical doctor and statesman Sava Pasha produced in the field of law as well as his extraordinary influences on the field of legal education. The first part of the study addresses Sava Pasha’s biography and how he has recently become an interest embraced by Albanian researchers based on his possible Albanian roots and contrary to popular belief. Regarding this point, the study states that researches from both cultures about a figure like Şemseddin Sami, who possessed both Turkish and Albanian identities, should be handled with a method free from the features such as bias and deficiency to which at times it has been exposed. After briefly mentioning Sava Pasha’s duties in these fields, many of which were admi-nistrative duties, the study goes on to discuss his activities in the scientific field, which forms the study’s basis. This study examines Pasha’s approach toward these institutions’ establishment as one of the founders and administrators of the deep-rooted Ottoman educational institutions, as well as how their curricula and education methods were de-termined. Another section of this study goes on to discusses the most extraordinary contribution of Sava Pasha, who was an Orthodox Christian, to the legal literature in Tur-key: An Etude on the Theory of Islamic Law. His work was originally in French and reso-nated in the West. The work also helped Sava Pasha be awarded the Legion d’Honneur in France. One of the last Sheikhs al-Islam of the time, Mustafa Sabri Efendi said about the work, “Unfortunately no one has looked into it.” This work was translated into Turkish by the Presidency of Religious Affairs after more than 60 years had passed since it was written. In addition to this work from Sava Pasha, the current study also discusses a few known works on Islamic legal theory and judicial procedures in terms of their contents.