| Abstract: | This article examines attainments and challenges in the pursuits of legal
education reform launched in 2006. Achievements and challenges in LL.B
programmes are examined based on the standards of the legal education
reform programme relating to admission of students to law schools, staff
profile, standards of reform relating to curriculum, course delivery,
assessment, law school autonomy, research, publications, quality assessment
and the requisite resources thereof. There are commendable achievements
such as raising the duration of legal education from four to five years, the
introduction of LL.B exit exam, and the preparation of a significant number
of teaching materials. However, the data, documents and literature discussed
and analyzed in this article indicate that the level of quality and standards in
Ethiopia’s legal education stand below most of the thresholds that were
envisaged in the 2006 Legal Education Reform Programme. |
