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Structural Inequalities in the Global Legal System

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Sassen Saskia, Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. New York: New Press, 1998. Pp. xxxvi + 288 pages. $25.00 cloth; $15.95 paper.
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Eve Darian-Smith
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Law & Society Review , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , 2000 , pp. 809 - 828
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Copyright © 2000 by the Law and Society Association

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I would like to thank Peter Fitzpatrick, Bill Maurer, and Helena Silverstein for their very helpful comments on an earlier draft of this review essay.

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