Based on widely available research, it is clear that the traditional lecture method of imparting knowledge is limited in its capacity to sustain learner interest beyond any lengths of time and hence the need to incorporate relevant and innovative teaching methods that break the monotony of long lecture hours. This is done through the use of modern ICT equipment and methods where a typical three hour class contact period per week incorporates the use of power-point presentations, group work presentations, screening of educational DVDs, field visits where appropriate, and guest lectures where arranged. In this way, the interest and enthusiasm of students in the various law course units is maintained to a good degree. In addition, the lecturers encourage intellectual discourse during lecture hours. This is achieved by promptly issuing you with comprehensive course outlines that incorporate learning outcomes as well as course materials at the beginning of every semester. This enables you to prepare early for classes and thus gives you the capability and confidence of engaging the lecturer in the lecture room for a better learning experience.

The faculty also utilizes other modern methods that ensure that our students are not only excellent in the theological aspects of the law but also in the practical and analytical aspects. One of them is experiential learning that is achieved through the clinical externship course and mooting course, both offered in the fourth year. Under the clinical externship course, you will be required to work at an organization approved by the faculty for eight weeks. This gives you an opportunity to launch your legal career before you have completed your legal education.

It provides an experiential learning environment that allows you to apply the theoretical aspects of the law that you will learn in the lecture room to real life legal problems thus giving you a hands-on, professional experience in actual law practice. This enables you to acquire vital skills such as analytical skills, problem solving skills, research skills, among others. The mooting course provides you with an opportunity to put into practice what you will have learnt in the lecture room. You will be required to argue a fictitious legal case with a fellow student in front of a ‘judge’. The judge can be a lecturer or a senior practicing advocate. Mooting is an important skill for aspiring lawyers and offers a great opportunity to develop their skills of analysis, legal reasoning and public speaking.

Through face-to-face, group and individual sessions with our friendly and dedicated teaching staff, our students are already beginning to gain the confidence that they will require to make representations before courts, in corporate boardrooms, and in regional and international forums.