TOWARD A HOLISTIC REFORM OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Stakeholders in the legal profession in Nigeria have on many occasions raised a concern about falling standards of the legal profession, the regressive quality of legal education, deteriorating professional ethics and weak regulatory regimes  for  the  legal  profession  as  well  as  the  threats  that  technology  and  globalization  have  brought  to  legal practitioners.  These  varying concerns  were  re-echoed  in  the  occasions  of  the  2019  Nigerian  Association  of  Law Teachers’ conference held in Ibadan and the just concluded Nigerian Bar Association Conference, 2019 held in Lagos. The root of these concerns was traced to failures in the regulation of the profession. This work x-rayed the varying  causes  of  poor  performance  in  the  legal  education  industry  and  made  recommendations  for  innovative reforms.