Former Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Friday has called for the scrapping of one-year programme at the Nigerian Law School, saying it must be re-examined and switched to online learning.
Osinbajo disclosed in Yenagoa as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bayelsa Branch, themed “Setting the Pace: Law, Leadership and Transformational Development.”
He said: “Our one-year Law School must be re-examined. The days of physical law school should be over. We must embrace online learning. We need to integrate AI into our curriculum. AI will soon take over many of our tasks as lawyers.”
“Machines are now doing our work faster. Legal education must now embrace critical thinking. There is already an AI legal assistant helping lawyers. These systems are becoming more intelligent than you can imagine. They don’t get tired, don’t go on leave, and don’t ask for extra pay. These tools are becoming cheaper and more accessible,” Osinbajo noted.
“We are no longer the gatekeepers and custodians of legal knowledge or legal reasoning. We must now focus on what machines cannot do—ethical decision-making and client-centered interpretation. This is the true value human lawyers will bring in the AI era.”