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Chapter One - Contractual knowledge: One hundred years of legal experimentation in global markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

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Grégoire Mallard  and
Jérôme Sgard
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Grégoire Mallard  and
Jérôme Sgard
Grégoire Mallard
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Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Jérôme Sgard
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Sciences Po, Paris
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Contractual Knowledge
One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets
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