THE POLICY, LEGAL, MANAGEMENT AND ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN AFRICA
HONOURABLE DR. JUSTICE ABOU B. M. BINNEH-KAMARA J
ustice of the Superior Court of Judicature of the Republic of Sierra Leone and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.
1.0 Background and Context
I must extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to the organisers of this conference for inviting legal academics and practitioners across Africa, to deliberate on the way forward for legal education, which is certainly crucial to the socio-economic and political development of our beloved continent. However, our structure of legal education, in this third decade of the twenty-first century, must reflect the dynamics of the contemporary governance systems of Africa. This presupposes that they must be tailored in tandem with the ideals of democratisation, human rights and good governance which are the structural architectures upon which the political systems of member states of the African Union (AU) are built. This will certainly bring about sustainable development, progress and prosperity to a continent that is still trapped in abject poverty, political instability and underdevelopment as a result of some of its subsisting dysfunctional governance structure and regulatory regimes.