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Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts. Peter H. Schuck. Cambridge: Belknop Press of the Harvard University Press, 1986, 347 pp.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2014
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- Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 2 , 1987 , pp. 189 - 195
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- Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1987
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7. Ibid., 80.
8. Ibid., 267.
9. Ibid., 234.
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