KSL Brief History

The Kenya School of Law (KSL) is the only bar school in Kenya. Established under Kenya School of Law Act of 2012 The school is mandated to train law students into becoming Advocates of the High Court of Kenya. The School of also mandated to offer paralegal courses, Continuous Professional Development courses and consultancies. The school has been in existence since 1963 with a student population of 11. The current student population is over 2000, 50 faculty members and over 150 staff members.

The school is regulated by the Council of Legal Education

Under the auspices of the GJLOS and FLSTAP programmes, the School has also been able to set in motion processes towards becoming a centre of excellence in legal education and training locally and in the region.

Other than offering quality legal training, the school offers a spacious modern cafeteria, seminar and conference rooms, modern lecture theatre with public address system, hostel facilities with self-contained single and double rooms with flat screen television sets among others. These facilities may be hired by the general public when they are not in use by students.