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³ The literatures are immense but each of these fields is well represented in most issues of Australian Feminist Law Journal, amongst others.

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⁵ Much recent literature has presented some such understanding of both the attainment and the limits of liberal governance. The legal profession turned out to be a significant fulcrum point in the workings out of these tendencies in at least some societies. See, for example, W. Wesley Pue, “Cultural Projects and Structural Transformation in the Canadian Legal Profession” in Lawyers and Vampires supra note 1 and literatures cited therein. Chunn, Dorothy, McLaren, John, & Menzies, Robert, eds., Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002).Google Scholar