The Council of Legal Education is the statutory body with the responsibility for the legal education of persons seeking to become members of the legal profession in Nigeria, and it has the additional responsibility for continuing legal education. Also, there is the National Universities Commission that has the overall responsibility for the regulation of university education and empowered to set the minimum standards for all programmes in Nigerian universities. This paper examines the management of legal education in Nigeria, an aspect of legal education system that has not been addressed by either the Council of Legal Education, the National Universities Commission, or any of the other stakeholder in the development of the legal profession in the nation. The paper makes references to the practices in the United States of America and The United Kingdom of Great Britain, appraises the operation and performance of the Council of Legal Education, and makes recommendation for the effective management of legal education in Nigeria for effective training of the lawyers for tomorrow. The methodology adopted for the research leading to this paper is doctrinal, drawing from content analysis of primary sources such as statutes, case laws as well as secondary sources such as scholarly texts, websites, and journal articles.
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