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Foreword
Drawing on his rich scholarly experience as a former academic in the UK and in Commonwealth Africa, and informed by his wide professional experience as an international attorney in the US, Dr. Kenneth K. Mwenda, provides a first-class treatment of important and salient policy issues underpinning the development of legal education systems in the US, the UK and Commonwealth Africa. The author has succeeded in answering vexing and elusive questions that have preoccupied several discussions by law students, law professors and other interested commentators, regarding such hot topics as the difference in standards between an undergraduate first professional law degree and a graduate first professional law degree.
Throughout the book, the author has been able to sustain his thesis intelligibly, arguing that although the UK and the US have fairly old and well established universities, a number of LLB programmes at Commonwealth African law schools are as good as similar programmes at leading British and American law schools—that is, the LLB degree in the UK and the JD degree in the US.