The NIALS Journal of Law and Public Policy shall provide a veritable international intellectual platform where scholarly inputs will be made into governance pursuant to redressing the lag existing between paradigm orthodoxy, public policies based on these paradigms, the institutional framework of policy implementation and the law which purpose it is to effectuate public policies. The Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies seeks to create a platform on which broad based intellectual inputs can be made into the policy conceptualization and implementation process in Nigeria and Africa region. It offers the NIALS Journal of Law and Public Policy as the intellectual market place of ideas for curing the lag between the orthodoxy of economic, scientific and technological paradigms; the institutional framework of policy implementation and the law which purpose it is to effectuate economic development policies