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Neither Evaders nor Apologists: A Reply to Professor Simon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Keith R. Fisher
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“From the Trenches and Towers”
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , Spring 1998 , pp. 341 - 364
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1998 

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