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Behind the Books: Global Insights from Law Librarians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2025

Michael McArthur  and
Julie M. Wooldridge
Michael McArthur
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Michael McArthur and Julie M.Wooldridge are academic law librarians at the Duke School of Law (Durham, North Carolina, USA). E-mail: michael.mcarthur@law.duke.edu; julie.wooldridge@duke.edu.
Julie M. Wooldridge
Affiliation:
Michael McArthur and Julie M.Wooldridge are academic law librarians at the Duke School of Law (Durham, North Carolina, USA). E-mail: michael.mcarthur@law.duke.edu; julie.wooldridge@duke.edu.
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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , Summer 2025 , pp. 165 - 173
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3 Prof. Githu Muigai, Report on the Ministerial Task Force on the Development of a Policy and Legal Framework for Legal Education in Kenya (2005), https://cle.or.ke/sites/default/files/2024-05/The%20Muigai%20Report%282005%29-compressed.pdf.

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5 Constitution of Kenya (2010), art. 43(1)(a), http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2017-05/The_Constitution_of_Kenya_2010.pdf.

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9 Kenya School of Law, Strategic Plan 2023/24–2027/28. Nairobi: KSL, 2023, https://www.ksl.ac.ke/k5_l/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/THE-KSL-STRATEGIC-PLAN.pdf [https://perma.cc/684R-E5R5].

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14 Constitution of Kenya, 2010, http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2017-05/The_Constitution_of_Kenya_2010.pdf.

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16 ATP, or the Advocate Training Program, is a mandatory professional training course in Kenya that law graduates must complete to qualify for admission to the Bar as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. ATP is conducted in eighteen months: twelve months in-house and a six-month pupilage. See Council of Legal Education (Kenya School of Law) Regulations, Legal Notice No. 169 of 2009 (Nov. 20, 2009), http://www.kenyalaw.org/kl/index.php?id=701 [https://perma.cc/2G29-F8SF].

† Senior Library Assistant, Kenya School of Law (Nairobi). Email: .