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8 - Law and Language as Information Systems: Perish the Thought!

from Part I - Histories of the Legal Contemporary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2017

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Marianne Constable
Edited by
Justin Desautels-Stein  and
Christopher Tomlins
Justin Desautels-Stein
Affiliation:
University of Colorado School of Law
Christopher Tomlins
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought , pp. 155 - 176
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Print publication year: 2017

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