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The quotation in the title of this paper, “Law, marching with medicine but in the rear and limping a little”, comes from a judgment of Justice Windeyer of the High Court of Australia in the case Mount Isa Mines v Pusey1.
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Somerville, M. (2013). “Law, Marching with Medicine but in the Rear and Limping a Little”: Ethics as “First Aid” for Law. In: Vöneky, S., Beylage-Haarmann, B., Höfelmeier, A., Hübler, AK. (eds) Ethik und Recht - Die Ethisierung des Rechts/Ethics and Law - The Ethicalization of Law. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, vol 240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37090-8_4
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