FACULTY OF LAW

FACULTY OF LAW
Introduction
The Faculty of Law was established in 1978. It has been running academic and professional programmes leading to the award of the degree of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in Common Law and Islamic Law, LLM (Masters in Law), Master in Business and Commercial Law (MBCL) and Ph.D. These are aimed at providing advanced intellectual training for the high level manpower and development needs of the country. The LLB programme had received the accreditation of both the National Universities Commission and the Council for Legal Education with an admission quota of 200 students. From the beginning, the Faculty has been administered as a single academic unit. However, three departments, namely Departments of Islamic Law, Public Law, as well as Private and Commercial Law were created.
Academic Activities
The Faculty has developed a number of policies aimed at providing a conducive atmosphere for learning. In this respect, the faculty has an exclusive building to itself, which is not shared with any other department or unit. The law library is also exclusive to the faculty and is situated near the faculty building. Arrangements are in advanced stage to provide computing facilities with Internet access to both postgraduate and undergraduate students. The faculty has one court room for Moats and Mock trial, which is used for practical legal training offered by the faculty. The court room has all the required facilities of a court room and can accommodate up to 100 students at a time.
Research and Publications
Group research conducted in 2009 included collaboration with Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom, in the areasof land rights of women and the poor in Jigawa State, civil dispute resolution through the Shariah, protection of Womens' rights through Shariah, a Glossary of Legal terms (translated into Hausa Language) for the use of Courts in Jigawa State.
Community Service
The faculty continued to provide teaching services to the faculties of social and management sciences and technology in the teaching of company law, business law and engineer and society to their respective undergraduate students. Faculty staff are also engaged in other community services. For example, representation in the Kano State Justice Sector Reform Team engaged in reforming and improving justice delivery to the community, the Board of Trustees Usman Bn Affan Islamic Trust, Muslim Community of Health Technology Funtua, Governing Council of Aminu Collage of Islamic Legal Studies, and the Governing Council Institute of Advanced Legal Studies..