The Department was amongst established in the year 2016; however academic activities commenced in the 2018/2019 Session when it admitted a total of 10 students from all over the country. The idea of establishing the Department was to meet or, at least, bridge the gap in the ever increasing demand for legal education in the country.
The Department, at inception, had the following academic staff:
- Professor M. S. Abubakar who served as the pioneer HOD
- Halima Doma
- A. M. J Elesi
- H. S. Saleh
- S. U. D. Keffi
- Abdulganiyi A. Zubaedy, and
- Rilwanu Suleiman
The numbers of both students and staff have steadily risen from what they were at inception. Staff development has always been a focal point of the Department with a number of our academic staff having already obtained their Ph.D, while all the remaining are either pursuing their Ph.D or Masters in various universities across the country.
Programmes
- Ph.D. Law
- M.Phil./Ph.D. Law
- LLM (Communications And Information Technology Law)
- LLM (Constitutional And Human Rights Law)
- LLM (Corporate Governance And Finance Law)
- LLM (Energy And Natural Resources Law)
- LLM (Entertainment And Sports Law)
- LLM (Intellectual Property Law And Policy)
- LLM (International Law And Diplomacy)
- LLM (International Maritime Law)
- LLM (Investment Law And Policy)
- LLM (Islamic Banking And Finance)
- LLM (Law And Government)
- LLM (Law Enforcement And Administration)
- LLM (Law Of Alternative Dispute Resolution)
- LLM (Law)
- LLM (Security Law And Policy)
- LLM (Taxation Law And Policy)
The Department, in its 7 years of existence, has had the following persons as HODs, Ag HODs:
- M. S. Abubakar 2016 – 2018
- Halima Doma 2020
- M. S. Abubakar 2020 – 2022
- S.U. D. Keffi 2022 – Date
The Department runs a five year degree programme in Law leading to the award of the Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B Common and Islamic Law).
The Head of the Department is in charge of general administration. The Departmental Board is the highest academic body of the Department, and is responsible to the Faculty Board. The Board consists of the academic staff of the Department, and is chaired by the HOD. The Representative of the Faculty Officer is the Secretary of the Board and is also the Chief Administrative Officer of the Department. The Board meets once every month ordinarily, and may also meet at other times when the need arises.
The academic staff members of the Department are involved in various academic activities which include teaching, research and supervision of long essays or research projects, and also as coaches for moot court trials, level coordinators, staff advisers to students, representation to various university committees, etc.
The philosophy of the Department is designed to ensure that the graduates of the Department will have a clear understanding of the role and importance of law in contemporary Nigeria. In this respect, students of the Department are required to undertake the study of a number of courses from other faculties in the process of acquiring legal education. This is carefully designed to ensure that law is taught to students in a comparative and interdisciplinary manner. Accordingly, students of the Department are required to take a number of non-Law elective courses from other Faculties, notably, Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts. Furthermore, it is a compulsory requirement that all Law Students register, take and pass examinations in the courses, run by Department of General Studies of the University. With the N.U.C. minimum Guidelines, students are also required to take courses in Entrepreneurship.
The philosophy of the Department is not meant to achieve a straitjacket legal education but to generally prepare the students towards the membership of the legal profession while at the same time providing the student with the right frame of mind to examine the function of the society in which he is a member and to understand human nature and to be able to contribute to the development of society through the skills and knowledge obtained through the legal education imparted to the students.
Thus, the objective is to prepare students, through the provision of the best possible legal education, to meet the challenges of the modern age and contemporary advances in all facets of human endeavours and to also expose the students to the theoretical and practical functioning of the society.
To develop, and become a Department with the highest standards of legal education and training in Nigeria.
- The training of academic and professional manpower in the legal profession that will compete favourably with the best trained in the world.
- The provision of legal training to, and preparation of, our graduates for eventual admission into the Nigerian Law School for final training as lawyers and admission to the Nigerian Bar.
- The conduct of relevant and meaningful research in Law and related disciplines and the publication of such research in journal/publications and in on-line legal portals for the benefit of the society.
- The incorporation of ICT into teaching, learning and researching the Law.
- The introduction of law courses in emerging areas of law with a view to developing legal and institutional frameworks for these emergent areas.
- The periodical re-evaluation of the above objectives and the academic contents of courses taught at different levels of our study chain to ensure that our academic outputs meet with the relevant needs of the society.
Departmental Board
The Departmental Board is made up of all lecturers in the Department except Graduate Assistant with the Head of Department as the Chairman. The Departmental Board organizes and controls the teaching of all courses in the Department and the examination held in those courses.
Entry Requirements
WAEC
ND
English Language
English Language
English Language
Staff Profile
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Upcoming Workshop/Conferences
