Dean's message

With the already big number of Law Schools in Uganda and on the East African regional level, one may ask, "Why another Law School at Nkumba"? This kind of question arises in all disciplines of knowledge and education. Educators have addressed and continue to address their attention to it all the world over. It is with this question to himself that Vice-Chancellor Maine, in his Address to the University of Calcutta, in 1865, had this to say,

" Experience proves that the first result of intellectual cultivation in any community is always to divert an extra-ordinary large part of its youth to the Bar. The reason of it is not hard to find. The pursuit of the law is one of the very few walks of life which offer attractions both to practical and to speculative tastes. It gratifies the passion of all young educated minds for generalization, both the materials for generalization — the materials which they fit into general rules - are the business and concerns of every day life. The practice of the law combines the attractions of the closest and of the market-place; it is money-making and study at the same time."

I am much of the same mind.

The kind of law graduate Nkumba Law School is striving to produce is one who would adhere to the motto of Nkumba University - "I OWE YOU", one, like the early Roman lawyer, who would put service to his client and society at large first, rather than being merely a money grabber; law graduates answering the needs of their immediate environment - the country of their operations, the East African region - with the revived and expanding co-operation among the Eastern African States.

Nkumba aims at producing law graduates capable of meeting the demands of the global village, with all the growing international commercial activities and the issues disturbing international law and order.