<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> ← Previous Season 17 Next → Season 19 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> The eighteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit debuted on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 on NBC and finished on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 with a two - hour season finale . </P> <P> Rick Eid, who previously worked on Law & Order and Law & Order: Trial By Jury, became the executive producer and showrunner, following Warren Leight's departure from the series at the conclusion of the seventeenth season . Eid himself departed the series at the end of the eighteenth season . </P>

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