A legal career in Somalia is a very complicated profession that requires a number of phases of both study and practice, needed to be finalized in order to become a qualified lawyer. More so, Somalia has a humongous legal system which consists of at least four different systems which include inter alia; Islamic Sharia law, civil law, common law and customary law or clan-based system. Such systems make confusion over jurisdiction that often becomes controversial.[1]
1 Andre Le Sage, 2005, ‘Stateless Justice in Somalia: Formal and Informal Rule of Law Initiatives’ Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva available at https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/20303/Somalia_stateless_justice.pdf. Accessed 6th April 2022
