Mount Kenya University (MKU) is set to begin offering a master of law course at the MKU Law School in Parklands, Nairobi.
MKU chairman and founder Professor Simon Gicharu made the announcement while receiving a token of appreciation from MKU Law Students Association.
MKU Parklands Law Campus offers legal training to undergraduate students seeking to attain Bachelors in Law.
According to the school, the LLB Programme seeks to equip learners with broad based skills and knowledge that is applicable both to Kenya and the international legal arena.
“Since 2009, Law campus has contributed to the training of competent lawyers equipped with the necessary skills needed to achieve that aim, inter alia with knowledge of both national and international laws,” says the school.
The law school is expected to offer specializations in the fields of Sports Law, Governance and Rule of Law International Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Business Law and Health Law.
The school has benefited from the MKU dominance in ICT and has integrated ICT into its learning processes.
To promote research and training in international and development law, the School of Law runs a Centre for International and Development Law which is anchored on research, training, publication and establishing linkages with various organizations.
The Law campus has immense facilities that anchor its program, staff and students’.
Apart from the School of Law, this year, the school of medicine released its first cohort of 24 doctors to the market after six years of training.
They young doctors were expected to undergo through a mandatory 13 months internship programme.