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[Eric A. Posner, The Perils of Global Legalism (The University of Chicago Press, 2009); ISBN: 9780226675742; 266 pp.; $29.00 Hardcover]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Heather Cohen

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German Law Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 1: Symposium on Human Rights , January 2012 , pp. 67 - 75
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