His Ph.D. dissertation for Columbia became the book, Constitutional Development in Libya, published in 1956, with an introduction by Adriaan Pelt.[3] He also credits Charles Issawi and J. C. Hurewitz as having contributed to the creation of the book.[4][5] At the time of publication, it was the first study conducted in English on the development of the Constitution of Libya (1951).[4]
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