Abstract: | President Tubman in 1952 set in motion the preparation of a code of laws. To carry out this plan, in the USA the Liberian Codification Project, staffed by a small group of lawyers and directed by Prof. M.R. Konvitz of Cornell University, was established, and a Codification Division was created in the Department of Justice under the direction of the Attorney General of Liberia. Liberian statutory law - session laws since 1821, compilations of statutes (Old Blue Book, 1847-57; Revised Statutes, 1929) was systematized into the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956, which became the official code of statutes of the Liberian government. The second phase was the preparation of a model code based upon principles of modern legal thought. This work is still in progress. A permanent Codification Commission examines the drafts. Another phase is the publication of opinions of the Supreme Court in the Liberian Law Reports. |