Land Law
This course examines the principles of real property, focusing on the Nigerian legal framework. Topics include the sources of Nigerian land law, the nature of ownership, customary land tenure systems, and a critical analysis of the Land Use Act, including its provisions on compensation and the Governor's powers of control and management.
Conveyancing Law and Practice
This course covers the practical and procedural aspects of transferring legal title to real property from one person to another. It focuses on the law and skills required for drafting and reviewing documents such as deeds of assignment, mortgages, leases, and sales agreements, ensuring compliance with all legal formalities to effect a valid transfer of interest in land.
Legal Drafting
A practical course focused on the specialized skill of writing legal documents. Students learn to draft clear, precise, and unambiguous documents, including contracts, wills, legislative bills, and legal correspondence. The course emphasizes the importance of language, structure, and form in creating legally binding and effective instruments.
Legal Research Methodology
This course provides the foundational skills for conducting effective legal research. It covers the systematic process of identifying legal problems, locating and evaluating primary and secondary sources (such as statutes, case law, and scholarly articles), and structuring a logical legal argument based on the findings.
Administrative Law
This course explores the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. It covers the scope of their powers, the rules and procedures they must follow, and the legal remedies available to challenge their decisions, including judicial review of administrative actions.
Equity and Trust
This course examines the branch of law that was developed to provide remedies where the common law was inflexible. It introduces the principles and maxims of equity, the nature of fiduciary relationships, and the creation, types, and administration of trusts, which involve managing property for the benefit of another.
Intellectual Property Law
This course covers the legal framework for protecting creations of the mind. It includes the study of copyrights (for literary and artistic works), patents (for inventions), trademarks (for brands and logos), and trade secrets. The course examines how these rights are acquired, enforced, and transferred.
Legal Theory
Also known as Jurisprudence, this course delves into the philosophy of law itself. It encourages students to ask fundamental questions about the nature of law, its purpose, its relationship with morality and justice, and to analyze different schools of thought on what law is and what it ought to be.
