caa a22 4500 386371113 CHVBK 20180307111958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021855300008007 doi S0021855300008007 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021855300008007 Legal Education in Kenya [Elektronische Daten] Legal education in Africa has attracted and will continue to attract the attention of scholars. An important reason is that African countries have enjoyed sovereign statehood for only a comparably short time, during which period transition, experiment, change, and even turmoil, have been the hallmark of society: all factors which must have a profound impact on received law (and, of course, on the primeval law), if this law is to serve effectively as a regulatory and stabilising device. This law, in its received cast, is thrown into a dilemma of turbulence; will it serve in wonted fashion, to give regularity, predictability, and a measure of reason? Or will it readily respond to inevitable change, so as to uphold new institutional positions? As President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia has observed: "We live in a changing world, and one in which the pace of change is becoming even greater. Neither the character nor the needs of any given society can remain static, and if the law is to fulfil its proper function it must keep pace with the changes. This is not to say that the law must be a straw in the wind; if law is to be an effective instrument of social order it must be a stabilising influence, but it must be flexible and it must be progressive, else it will hinder society in its progress and development. ...” Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1989 Ojwang J. B. Salter D. R. Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 78-90 0021-8553 33:1<78 1989 33 JAL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008007 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855300008007 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ojwang J. B. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Salter D. R. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Law Cambridge University Press 33/1(1989), 78-90 0021-8553 33:1<78 1989 33 JAL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge