Editing Tax law (section)

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Most African countries use the British legal education curriculum in their law educational system to train lawyers.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Manteaw|first=Samuel O|title=Legal Education in Africa: What Type of Lawyer Does Africa Need|url=https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1197&context=mlr|journal=McGeorge Law Review|volume=39| issue = 4|pages=919 to 928|via=Scholarly Commons (2016)}}</ref>

Overall, legal education, across African countries, starts at the university level as an undergraduate course although a few universities have promulgated a law degree as a graduate program "akin to [that] … in the United States, Canada, and India."<ref name=":6" />

In most African countries, a law degree does not necessarily qualify one to practice as a lawyer. Further post-graduate practical training is required.<ref name=":6" />

Graduates earn an undergraduate law degree, viz. the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), via a four-year program (as in Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, and most of South African law universities). Subsequently, graduates with the [[Bachelor of Laws]] seek to earn the [[Master of Laws]] or greater in order to become practitioners of the law. Some law institutions offer tracks to a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), a Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.), or a Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D.) with emphasis on tax law.<ref name=":6" />

A list of tax faculty ranked by publication downloads is maintained by Paul Caron at TaxProf Blog.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/01/ssrn-tax-professor-rankings.html|title = SSRN Tax Professor Rankings|date = January 28, 2016|website = TaxProf Blog|last = Caron|first = Paul}}</ref>