Assaf Likhovski
Tel Aviv University

I would like to thank Yishai Blank, Binyamin Blum, Orly Erez-Likhovski, Yifat Holzman-Gazit, Roy Kreitner, Pnina Lahav, Ariel Porat, Ingo Venzke, the participants of the Histories of Legal Transplantations conference, the ASLH annual conference, the IDC-Herzliya Faculty Seminar, the Assistant Editors ofTheoretical Inquiries in Law, and especially Yakov Malkiel, the Associate Editor, for their
comments on earlier drafts of this Article; Rivka Brot, Edwin Moloy, and David Warrington for their assistance in obtaining archival and other materials in Israel and the United States; and Adam Vital for his editorial assistance. This Article was written during my stay at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem in 2008. I would like to thank the director and staff of the Institute for their hospitality and assistance during this period. I use the following abbreviations: ISA for the Israel State Archive, G for division Gimel therein, HUA for the Hebrew University
Archive, and HLS for the records of the Harvard-Brandeis Cooperative Research on Israel’s Legal Development Program, found at the Harvard Law Library Special
Collections Department.