AUGUST 2016 – The American University of Nigeria has received the full approval of the National Universities Commission and the Council for Legal Education to start her innovative LL.B programme in August. Admission into the LL.B programme for the 2016/2017 academic session is already in progress.
Nigeria’s certifying authority for law programmes, the Council for Legal Education, had at a full Council meeting on Tuesday, June 28, ratified the decision of its Board of Studies to approve the School of Law at AUN. The AUN School of Law is the fourth school of the eleven-year-old development university – following the schools of Information Technology and Computing, Business and Entrepreneurship, and Arts and Sciences.
Before the Board’s approval, CLE had conducted a resource verification exercise on AUN’s state-of-the-art facilities, close on the heels of a similar exercise by the National Universities Commission, which regulates university education in Nigeria.
AUN’s president Dr. Margee Ensign, expressing the sentiments of the AUN community, said: “The American University of Nigeria is pleased and proud that the Council for Legal Education has approved the launch of our new School of Law. AUN, Africa’s first ‘development university’, will bring an innovative and important dimension to legal education in Nigeria.”
Modelled on the American liberal arts tradition of a broad education and critical thinking, the AUN law courses reinforce the development philosophy of AUN and will be enriched by the University’s extensive international faculty. The law curriculum embraces humanitarian studies, gender, alternative dispute resolution, environmental law, HIV and the law, gender and development, energy and natural resources law, and technology and the law, among its novel courses.
–By DAN OKEREKE, ED, cOMMUNICATIONS & PR, AUN, Yola
