Wollega University School of Law was inaugurated in 2007 at Main Campus in the beautiful city of western Oromia, Nekemte. The School is one of the law schools engaging in teaching, research and serving the community in Ethiopia. Since its establishment, the school is producing legally competent, trained, skilled, and ethical legal professionals both at undergraduate and graduate levels. It is one of the applied law schools in the country.
Academic Programs
The school runs both undergraduate and graduate programs. At undergraduate level, the school teaches LL.B degree in regular, evening and summer modalities. It takes five years to complete LL.B degree in regular modality and six years in evening and summer modalities.
The School launched its first graduate program LL.M in Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2014 and its second graduate program LL.M in International Business and Economic Law in 2016. The former focuses on producing competent and skilled legal professionals that contribute in reforming the criminal justice system of the country, and the latter focuses on strengthening and modernizing the economic and business laws and policies of Ethiopia in the context of the contemporary global landscape. Besides, the School has launched another graduate program LL.M in Constitutional and Human Rights Law in 2021. So far, the programs have been attracting and bringing together legal professionals from various walks of life, members of academia and practitioners, from within and abroad.