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The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism by Thomas M Franck. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xiv + 312 pp (£12.99 paperback). ISBN 0 19 924809 5.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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