An Avenue for Global Exposure
Strathmore Law School (SLS) offers reciprocal exchange programmes across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa through a strong network of global partners.
These partnerships enable our students and faculty to study, teach and engage with leading institutions around the world. Globally minded legal professionals equipped to navigate both local and international contexts. We also host students and scholars from around the world, who bring new perspectives into our classrooms and community. These exchanges take place in different forms; from semester study, academic visits to clinics, research, collaborative teaching among other engagements. Together, we aim to shape a learning environment that is both local and globally connected.
Exchange Programme Documents
Why Exchange Programmes
In all these SLS aims to ensure that through the partnerships and activities we are involved they are aimed at ensuring the full student experience and development as we aim to live to our mission of achieving legal excellence by providing a supportive learning environment that inspires innovative and critical thinking, promoting groundbreaking research, actively pursuing justice, and nurturing virtuous leaders.
An overview of SLS’s core academic and student engagement areas is provided below
The Strathmore Law Clinic, established in 2016, is one of the School’s flagship experiential learning initiatives and a clear expression of its public mission. The Clinic serves as a bridge between legal education and community service, allowing students to apply their training to real legal problems while advancing access to justice for underserved communities.
It operates as a student-led but faculty supervised legal aid institution, supported by academic staff and practising advocates. Its central philosophy is simple but powerful: legal education should produce not only technically competent lawyers, but lawyers who are socially conscious, ethically grounded, and committed to public service.
The Clinic pursues four core objectives:
1. strengthening experiential legal education
2. promoting access to justice
3. cultivating a culture of pro bono service
4. deepening community legal awareness
One of the most distinctive features of SLS’s internationalisation strategy is its use of structured academic trips as a curriculum embedded mobility instrument. These trips are not generic study tours. They are academically designed, partnership-driven, and linked to legal subject areas such as public international law, international criminal law, arbitration, comparative constitutional law, and global governance.
Through these trips, students have visited institutions such as the International Court of Justice, theInternational Criminal Court, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the European Parliament, and United Nations agencies.
Over time, the model has evolved from broad multicountry exposure to deeper, more focused, partnership-anchored engagement,
strengthening learning outcomes while
deepening institutional relationships.
Advocacy training is one of the defining features of legal education at Strathmore Law School.
Over time, the School has built one of the most successful and respected moot court programmes in Africa, building a culture of training and
mentorship that continues to produce extraordinary results.
Strathmore has secured major victories and landmark achievements in some of the world’s most prestigious moot competitions.
Among the most notable:
- It became the first African university to win
the Global Rounds of the John H. - Jackson Moot Court Competition on WTO
Law, after defeating Harvard Law School. - It recorded Kenya’s best performance in
the Philip C. Jessup International Law.Moot Court Competition, reaching the
Quarterfinals (Top 8 globally) and also
receiving the Best New Team Award. - It became the first African university to
reach the finals of the International Criminal
Court Moot Court Competition - It emerged as overall winners of the Nelson
Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court
Competition. - It won the Nuremberg Moot Court
Competition, with a Strathmore student
also taking Best Oralist. - In its first participation, it won the African
Regional Rounds of the Manfred Lachs. - Space Law Moot Court Competition, again
with Best Oralist.
The Strathmore Law Review is a law journal managed entirely by students at Strathmore Law School. Founded in 2016, the Review is an independent institution that produces a law journal peer-reviewed and published entirely by students at Strathmore Law School. It is one of the few consistent journals in Africa and publishes one volume annually.
Our Exchange Stories
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