The collection can satisfy most of the ordinary research needs of the region. Its content reflects the West Indian common law legal heritage. Included are most of the statutes, law reports, texts, law revision commission reports, etc. of the major Commonwealth countries as well as a basic selection of American legal materials.
Strong points are the English and Canadian sections.
The Law Library subscribes to approximately 620 legal periodicals - 400 of which are law reports, statutes, digests, citators, etc. The collection's unique feature is the West Indian section, including approximately 20,000 unreported West Indian cases, theses, and research papers produced by staff and students. The library also has one of the most extensive collections of West Indian legislation in existence, including pre-1900 laws of the region which have been acquired on microfilm. The Law Library received substantial grants from the UWI Board for Postgraduate Studies to fund this project in co-operation with the Department of History, the Main Library, Cave Hill, UWI, the Archives Department and the Barbados Public Library. The Library aims at providing a legal reference service for practitioners and researchers in general, in addition to supporting the teaching programmes at the Faculty of Law where approximately 425 students, including postgraduate students, are registered.