LEGAL EDUCATION AND FORMAL TRAINING IN LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING IN NIGERIA (2022): In Honour of Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Rt. Hon. Speaker, House of Representatives, National Assembly, Nigeria

This book by Tonye Clinton Jaja, Chukwuka Edmond Onyeaku and Blessing Ikanyi makes a very valid and undisputable, though very much unappreciated, point: it is impossible to draft good quality laws without providing the necessary formal training to legislative drafters. The quality of drafted legislation is indissolubly linked to formal training in legislative drafting that a drafter masters. Professor Kevin Aquilina, Dean, Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

PART I – Case for Autochthonous (Homegrown) Programmes and Providers in Legislative Drafting: A Comparative Study of NILS and NIALS Legislative Drafting Programmes

PART II – The Importance, Challenges and Prospects of Formal Training of Legislative Drafters in Nigeria: A Comparative Study of Lawyers and Staff of the National Assembly (NASS) and National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) Respectively

PART III – The Imperative of Empirical Research Methodology In Legislative Drafting and Conduct of Research in Law

APPENDICES

• Curriculum of the Nigerian Law School Showing Legislative Drafting as a Topic under the Professional Legal Ethics and Skills Course (Week 18)
• Council of Legal Education, Nigerian Law School Vision & Mission Statement and Curriculum for Bar Part II Vocational Examination (Week 8)
• Drafting 2: (I) Stages Of Drafting (II) Drafting of Minutes of Meetings Office Memorandum and Curriculum Vitae

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