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The History of Normalcy: Rethinking Legal Autonomy and the Relative Dependence of Law at the End of the Soviet Empire

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Markovits Inga, Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 204. $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

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Copyright © 1996 by The Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

The author benefited from a fellowship from the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna, where the research and writing of this review primarily took place. The author's research on the Hungarian Constitutional Court was supported by the (U.S.) National Science Foundation (SBR 9411889 and SBR 9514174) and also by the School of Public Policy and the International Institute of the University of Michigan.

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