Council of Legal Education Standards for Law Report Collection in Nigerian Universities

Abstract

The study investigated the development of law reports collections in the South East Universities in relation to the Council of Legal Education standards.  The scope consisted of 49 titles of local and foreign law reports listed by Council of Legal Education as accreditation bench mark and involves seven law faculty libraries in the universities South East Geopolitical zone of Nigeria that offer law programme.  The instrument for data collection was the standard check list released by Council of Legal Education.  This check list was found appropriate and was adopted for this study.  Two research questions were formulated for the study.  The findings showed that two law libraries, NAU and UNEC met the Council of Legal Education standards in foreign law reports, while three law libraries, ABSU, EBSU and NAU met the standards in local law reports.  Recommendations were made which include among others, the need for adequate funding of law libraries to enable them purchase the required law materials.

Keywords: Law reports, Legal Education, Law Library, Council of Legal Education, accreditation,