The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia has donated a consignment of text books to the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law of the University of Liberia.

The resource materials presented  Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis included  copies of the American Jurisprudence; copies of the Black’s Law Dictionary 9th edition; five DVDs containing opinions of the Supreme Court of Liberia from 1861 to 2007; 40 copies each of Burton’s Principles of Contract Law, 3d; LaFave’s Modern Criminal Law: Cases, Comments and Questions, 4th (American Casebook Series); Schwartz, Wydick, Perschbacher and Bassett’s Problems in Legal Ethics, 8thd; Johnson, Salsich, Shaffer, Braunstein and Weinberger’s Property Law, Cases, Materials and Problems, 3d (American Casebook Series); Christie, Meeks, Pryor and Sanders’ Cases & Materials on the Law of Torts, 4thd; Pratt’s Legal Writing: A Systematic Approach, 4th (American Casebook Series); Kamisar, LaFave, Isreal and King’s Modern Criminal Procedure: Cases, Comments and Questions, 12th edition; Broun, Mosteller and Giannelli’s Evidence: Cases and Materials, 7th d (American Casebook Series); Vollmar Hess and Whitman’s, An Introduction to Trusts and Estates; and Choper, Fallon, Kamisar and Shiffrin’s Constitutional Law, Cases, Comments and Questions, 10th ed.

It can be recalled that World Bank Liberia donated a consignment of law books to the Judiciary of Liberia under its Capacity Building for Judicial Services Project on May 27, 2010 valued at USD 74,471.00, during which program His Honour Johnnie N. Lewis said he had made a determination to retain 30 copies of each of the sets of books and intended to give 40 copies of each set to the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law of the University, noting that he served the Law School as Dean for five years and that “there was a grave need for text books at the School.” Today’s presentation was in fulfillment of the promised made by Chief Justice Lewis that he will shortly convene a program in which he will invite the current dean of the Law School in order to make the presentation.

Making the presentation on behalf of the Judiciary, Chief Justice Lewis said he was proud to assist the Law School with the donation of text books which would be used by the students. His Honour Johnnie N. Lewis informed the Law School delegation that he served as Dean of the Law School for five years until 1975 when he was appointed as Circuit Judge and that even though he is not as active as he was when he was much younger, he still has the Law School on mind. Chief Justice Lewis currently teaches Criminal Law and Estates & Trust Law at the Law School.

World Bank representative at the program, Akua Gyekye, said she was happy that out of the donation of books made to the Judiciary by the World Bank, the Judiciary considered to give a substantial portion to the Law School having seen the need of the school. The World Bank Legal Sector Reform Specialist further said that the materials will assist in improving the standard of lawyers that will serve the country upon completion of the Law School.

Receiving the donation on behalf of the Law School, Cllr. David A.B. Jallah, who currently serves as Dean of the Law School, said the faculty of the Law School was highly appreciative of the gesture from the Judiciary, noting that the Law School is in dire need of resource materials. Dean Jallah also said that he brought a representative group of the Law School students along so that they will know where the books are coming from in order that to  manage them properly.