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The Impact of Institutional Structures and Power on Law and Society: Is It Time for Reawakening?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Joan Brockman
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Law & Society Review , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 283 - 294
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© 2003 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I would like to thank my colleagues Wendy Chan, Dorothy Chunn, Margaret Jackson, and Robert Menzies for taking time, on very short notice, to comment on an earlier version of this commentary.

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