|
|
Preface
There is a dearth of literature for law schools in Commonwealth Africa to consider when developing law degree programmes to meet challenges of the new millennium. And there is insufficient evidence of documented international and comparative studies examining intricate aspects of legal education in the US and other common law jurisdictions, such as the UK and some parts of Commonwealth Africa. This book endeavours to fill that gap.
The book is a sequel to an earlier refereed and scholarly journal article that I wrote a few years back, and whose citation is as follows: K.K. Mwenda, ‘A new paradigm for Commonwealth African law schools: the decline of the LLB and PhD, and the ascent of the JD and SJD’, Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education, (Volume 3, Number 1, November 2004).
As law schools in Commonwealth Africa begin to confront the challenges of developing their legal education systems, so as to address contemporary issues in the law and development discourse pertaining to globalisation, they will, inevitably, face many issues that can only be best understood by reflecting critically, among other things, on how some developed jurisdictions have structured and grown their law degree programmes.