A CASE FOR AUTOCHTHONOUS (HOMEGROWN) PROGRAMMES AND PROVIDERS IN LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NILS AND NIALS LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING PROGRAMMES

Abstract

In recent times, quite a few studies have been published on the different kinds of formal training and teaching programmes in legislative studies conducted by different law schools of universities and other institutions. Some of the major studies in this respect include: Donaldson², Miers³ and Page, McHenderson and St.John Bates⁴, Stern⁵, Crabbe⁶, Webster⁷, Xanthaki⁸, Jaja⁹, and most recently Nand¹⁰.

Generally, the articles listed above have published studies of formal training programmes conducted by law schools and institutions within the United States of America, the United Kingdom (London and Edinburgh respectively), Fiji, South Pacific and even Zimbabwe.

However, none of these studies, has undertaken an examination of formal training programmes in legislative drafting that are currently on offer by institutions within Nigeria.

This article attempts to fill this gap in the literature on this subject area by examining the strengths and the weaknesses of the formal legislative drafting programmes on offer in Nigeria offered by the National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), National Assembly and the Nigerian