Abstract
<p>The development of any society is anchored on the existence of enabling environment for imparting legal education. Technological breakthrough and globalization among other things has made the provision of sound legal education to would-be lawyers and continuing legal education for lawyers, judges and academics a sine qua non at national and international levels. Hitherto, legal education was and unfortunately is still to a large extent restricted to the domain of domestic law sufficient enough to give a student broad general knowledge and exposure to other disciplines in the process of acquiring legal education. Such system of legal education which exists to date hardly if at all expose the student or the lawyer to challenges and the developments in other jurisdictions or in the emerging fields of law. A lawyer or a judge is a mirror of the system of legal education that produced him. Sadly, the laws regulating legal education, apart from being obsolete are in some cases conflicting due to the roles assigned to different and disparate organs.</p>
Highlights
The history of the western form of legal education in Nigeria started with the report of the Unsworth Committee on Higher Education which recommended inter alia the following: 1. Nigeria should establish its own system of legal education2.A law school, to be known as the Nigerian Law School, be established in Lagos to provide vocational training to legal practitioners as barristers and solicitors; 3
A Council of Legal Education should be established[1]. These and other recommendations of the Committee culminated in the establishment of Council of Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School for the purposes of providing vocational training of legal practitioners as barristers and solicitors.[2]
The academic component of legal education is undertaken by accredited faculties of law whose course of legal studies is approved by the Council as sufficient qualification for admission into the Nigerian Law School
Summary
The history of the western form of legal education in Nigeria started with the report of the Unsworth Committee on Higher Education which recommended inter alia the following: 1. Nigeria should establish its own system of legal education. A Council of Legal Education should be established[1] These and other recommendations of the Committee culminated in the establishment of Council of Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School for the purposes of providing vocational training of legal practitioners as barristers and solicitors.[2]. The academic component of legal education is undertaken by accredited faculties of law whose course of legal studies is approved by the Council as sufficient qualification for admission into the Nigerian Law School. The Council of Legal Education Act and National Universities Commission Act had respectively undergone amendments;[5] these amendments have done very little in the area of teaching pedagogy and course contents both at the academic and vocational levels.
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