sentences:  Coussa began service as the assistant to the Pontifical Commission for the Preparation of the Oriental Canon Law on 21 March 1933; when the commission was charged with the redaction of the Code of Oriental Canon Law, he became its secretary, 16 July 1935.From 1936 until 1953 he served as professor of the Latin Code of Canon Law, at the Pontifical Institute "Utriusque Iuris", Rome.Beginning in 1946 he served as dean of the faculty of canon law at the university.