The Nnamdi Azikiwe University Law Review (“NAULR”) is an independent student-run journal publication established in 2019 in the faculty of law of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, by her law students. The review is a law journal publication which aims at national and international audience. As communicating research findings through the internet, journals and other publications continue to sit at the heart of any research enterprise, the review devotedly occupies a pride of place in the legal literature.

The review is positioned to strategically addressing the core educational and socio-economic needs of law students in Nigeria and by extension the profession as a whole, especially in the light of the ever changing variables in the world today. Basically, we conduct legal researches; run an online platform where we invite, review and publish opinion on cutting-edge areas of law authored by the leading global stakeholders in the legal profession -including justices, practicing lawyers, professors, the academia and distinguished law students alike; aggregate knowledge on critical legal issues of the day; and write legal commentaries of both national and international significance.

As the Return on Investment (ROI) in formal education is being threatened globally, our vision is calculated to developing legal minds that properly fit into the contemporary legal industry and can contribute to the ultimate improvement of our foremost noble profession. Also, by enshrining legal works and commentaries that are highly knowledge based, timely and obtained from leading stakeholders in the profession, we aim to be of great service to the profession and all students of law – provide better, wider and faster access to research publications.

The review is run by the editorial board (consisting entirely of distinguished law students), and when necessary, in conjunction with the committee-of-councils who serve as an advisory body.  The process for each article is objective and consists of three stages; the fact-check or research stage, the content-editing stage and the synchronization stage.  Each article is reviewed in line with the review’s anonymity and confidentiality policy; where the author of each article to be reviewed remains anonymous and the contents of the article thereto remain confidential until the end of the review process if the article is approved for publication.

Mission

The founders of the review have developed a four-fledged goal, around which, the activities of the review centrally revolve. These goals are captured below;

1.      To improve the quality of legal education by equipping students with the quintessential legal writing and research skills.

2.      To expose students to practice areas on emerging legal trends.

3.      To serve as a legal research tool of information and exposure to the legal community and otherwise.

4.      To simplify the understanding of law to the common man as the law consistently remains a veritable tool in every society

       Membership

Gaining membership into the review is based solely on the performance of prospective students. The review admits only of exceptional students who are successful at the Membership Entrance Assessment (MEA) which is based on policies existing at the material time. The MEA is conducted annually every academic session to usher in a transition from the existing editorial board to new editorial board members for each new issue of the review publication. We strongly encourage all students to apply or participate in MEA and afford themselves a membership opportunity.

Upon the selection of successful students, such students are awarded provisional admission into the review until their completion of the compulsory one-week on-boarding orientation. The on-boarding orientation involves special packaged trainings and master classes about the review and certain outlined areas. This is in line with values of the review in reinforcing efficiency and professionalism. The welfare of each member of the review is of paramount concern; at the fore are strategies geared at improving their knowledge base, all the reason 65% of the review budget goes to research schemes and other schemes incidental thereto.