The University of Alabama law school chosen to help create graduate law programs in Ethiopia

UA law school chosen to help create graduate law programs in Ethiopia
The University of Alabama School of Law was recently chosen by the Ethiopian government to help that country build its graduate law programs.

The project, funded by a $2.4 million loan allocated by the World Bank, is a five-year program called “Graduate Programs in Law for Teaching and Research Capacity Building.” UA Law faculty will offer strategies to assist public universities in Ethiopia in developing their masters and doctoral legal programs. Currently, Ethiopian schools offer only undergraduate law degrees, and students seeking a masters or doctoral degree in law must study abroad. The new program will support 40 masters and 18 doctoral students. Ethiopia, a nation of approximately 75 million people, had only one law school between1963 and 1994. Today, there are eight law schools in Ethiopia. Earlier this year, the Ethiopian government issued a request for proposals to five universities: the University of Alabama School of Law; Warwick University Law School in Great Britain; Åbo Akademi University’s Department of Law in Finland; University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Law in the Netherlands; and University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Law in South Africa. The University of Alabama School of Law and Warwick University Law School were chosen, and will coordinate their efforts with two Ethiopian public universities. Final negotiations between the University of Alabama School of Law, Warwick University Law School, and the Ethiopian government will take place before the new year.
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