Background

Formal legal education in Somaliland had to wait until the establishment of law Faculty in 2002. The important challenges of the inception of legal education in Somaliland include such concerns as to who should be taught law, at what level should law be taught, who should teach law and what laws should be taught.  The college of Law is one of oldest faculties of the University and other Faculties of Law in Somaliland.

The Faculty of Law offers three cycles of legal education:  a four-year bachelor’s program (LLB), a  two-years of joint master’s  degree  program (LLM). The College of Law aims to provide its students with the mastery of individual legal areas as well as the overall structure of Somaliland legal system, and to equip them with the methods of legal analysis and reasoning enabling them to tackle practical legal problems. It also strives to foster their broader intellectual development, critical thinking, reflecting and reassessing the fundamental values of the legal system.

Objectives of the College

• Produce high caliber graduates, in the LLM Degree specializations, who are committed to the improvement of justice in Somaliland.
• Expand and create capacity for the College of Law to run and administer timely and highly competitive postgraduate programs in the future;
• Promote and scale up best experience through under graduate and post graduate programs and research

Long-term goals of the College

• Improved and better advancement for justice system in Somaliland;
• The supremacy application and development of law;
• Produce high caliber graduates, in the above provided specializations, who are committed to the improvement of justice in Somaliland
• Equal justice and access of Justice to all under the law of the land.

Career opportunities of the program

• Jobs directly related to your degree include:

  • Arbitrator
  • Barrister
  • Chartered legal executive
  • Costs lawyer
  • Judge in local and regional courts
  • Licensed conveyancer
  • Paralegal
  • Solicitor
  • Trade mark attorney
  • Public notary law officer