Word: laufer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph Laufer, formerly associated with the Department of Justice and director of this plan, has been working on the project since its inception in February. Laufer will spend a month each year in Israel, insuring a close contact with officials of the government...
Over the next few months the machinery of the plan was set up, and a director chosen for the project. German-born Joseph Laufer, a former Department of Justice lawyer who has a reading or speaking knowledge of eight foreign languages, began work on the codification process last month...
...Laufer's first project is an examination and revision of the Israeli laws on wills and cases where no will is left. For under the old Turkish law which still stands, most land in Israel cannot be handed on the will. The case is also an opportunity to test out comparative legal science...
...other serious problems Laufer will have to face is a revision of the trial system. The British government, imposed the traditional English rules of evidence which were designed largely to meet the needs of jury trials, but did not introduce to Israel the jury system itself...
...present Laufer has only one assistant, a graduate student who is also general counsel to the Israeli Finance Ministry...