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The impact of European integration on private law — a comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Geoffrey Samuel
Geoffrey Samuel*
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University of Kent
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Legal Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 167 - 176
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1998

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