Federal Constitution, Annotated Pocket Edition
₦9,500
Lagos Island · Law books since the first session
Read the law. Then read it again.
Student texts, statutes, law reports and practice guides, checked against the current edition each term, with a reading room upstairs.
- Editions checked each term
- Delivered to every law faculty in Lagos
- Ask the desk about a title
- Reading room open to 7pm
This session
Student texts, numbered
- 01Nigerian Contract Law, Student TextStudent Texts₦18,500
- 02Constitutional Law in Nigeria, Student TextStudent Texts₦21,000
- 03Law of Torts, Student TextStudent Texts₦17,500
- 04Criminal Law, Student TextStudent Texts₦17,000
- 05Land Law and the Land Use Act, Student TextStudent Texts₦19,500
- 06Equity and Trusts, Student TextStudent Texts₦16,500
- 07Company Law, Student TextStudent Texts₦20,500
- 08Law of Evidence, Student TextStudent Texts₦19,000
- 09Legal Methods, First Year TextStudent Texts₦12,500
Reading lists
Where to start, year by year
The core courses most faculties set, and the text students usually start with. Check your own faculty's list.
| Year | Core courses | Start with |
|---|---|---|
| First year | Legal methods and Nigerian legal system | Legal Methods First Year Text |
| Second year | Contract and constitutional law | Nigerian Contract Law Student Text |
| Third year | Torts and criminal law | Law of Torts Student Text |
| Fourth year | Land law and equity | Land Law Student Text |
| Final year | Evidence and company law | Law of Evidence Student Text |
| Law school | Litigation and property practice | Civil Litigation Practice Guide |
Example reading list for this demo store.
For studentsTexts, past questions and flashcards, priced for a student budget.Student texts
For chambersLaw reports, annotated statutes and practice guides.Law reportsOn the shelves
Statutes, reports and practice
The law school year
When to buy what
A rough calendar for students. Your faculty and the law school will publish their own dates.
October
New session
Reading lists are posted; first year texts sell out first.
January
First semester exams
Past questions and flashcards.
April
Moots and mock trials
Handbooks and court stationery.
July
Bar finals
Practice guides and five years of past questions.
November
Call to the bar
Bib and collar sets and a first pocket statute.
Example dates for this demo store.
Inside a bound volume
Supreme Court law reports, 2025
What you get in a year's bound volume. Every report title on this site is an example.
- Covers
- Judgments delivered in 2025
- Each report
- Full judgment with a headnote
- Indexes
- Cases, subjects and statutes cited
- Binding
- Cloth with the year on the spine
- Pages
- About 1400
- Delivery
- To your chambers in Lagos
Please note
THE LAW LIBRARY sells books. Nothing on this site is legal advice. For advice about a matter, speak to a lawyer.
Exam preparation
Past questions and handbooks
Book search
Out of print, not out of reach
Tell us the title
Name, edition and year, or a photograph of a citation.
We search
Dealers, estates and chambers libraries we know.
We quote
Condition and price before you pay anything.
Delivered
To your faculty, chambers or home.
At the library
Evenings and clinics
2026-11-12
Reading list clinic for first years
5pm to 7pm · THE LAW LIBRARY, Lagos Island
Save a seatBring your faculty list; we show you what to buy now and what can wait.
2026-11-26
Using law reports for the first time
6pm · THE LAW LIBRARY, Lagos Island
Save a seatHow to read a headnote and follow a citation through the volumes.
2026-12-10
Second-hand textbook swap
10am to 2pm · THE LAW LIBRARY, Lagos Island
Save a seatBring last year's texts and swap them for this year's.
Example dates for this demo store.
For the courtroom
Court stationery
The reading room
Upstairs: twenty desks, good light, quiet and the law reports on the shelves around you. A day pass costs less than a taxi across the bridge.
The library
3000
titles on the shelves
20
desks in the reading room
40
years of law reports
6
law faculties we deliver to
Example numbers for this demo store.
Readers
From the desk
“They had the edition my lecturer asked for when nobody else did.”
“The reading room got me through bar finals.”
“Book search found a report volume our chambers had lost.”
Example quotes for this demo store.
Questions
Can you advise me on my case?
No. We sell and find books; nothing on this site is legal advice. For advice about a matter, speak to a lawyer.
Are these the latest editions?
We check every student text and statute against the current edition each term. Titles on this demo store are examples.
Do you buy used law books?
Yes, current editions in good condition, at the start of each session.
New editions, as they arrive
An email when a new edition or a new volume of reports reaches the shelves.