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When the Complexity of Lived Experience Finds Itself Before a Court of Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2011

Peter C. Caldwell
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Law and History Review , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , May 2011 , pp. 567 - 572
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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2011

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