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The School for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS), created in 1992, is housed in the Faculty of Law. It the administrative home for postgraduate student enrolments in the Law Faculty and the coordination of the postgradute courses and programme. Its functioning is overseen by the Faculty’s Deputy Dean (Postgraduate Studies). SALS offer the LLM and MPhil degrees by coursework and minor dissertation. The content and requirements for these two degrees is identicial with the key difference being one of nomenclature – the LLM is awarded to students with a prior law degree and the MPhil to students with prior degrees in other disciplines. SALS also offers a PGDip in Law which is available to lawyers and non-lawyers - with its requirements constituting half of that required for an LLM/MPhil Degree.

Furthermore, given that SALS’s objectives extend to the promotion of research and academic exchanges with students and staff at other universities, it has aided in the Faculty forging a number of exchange agreements with several leading law schools in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Tese initiatives include provision for staff and student exchanges which diversify and enrich the experience and understanding of all involved.