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Inequality and Rights: Commentary on Michael McCann's “The Unbearable Lightness of Rights”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Sally Engle Merry
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Law & Society Review , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 285 - 295
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© 2014 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Justin Richland for insightful comments on earlier draft of this commentary. The Law and Society Program of the National Science Foundation generously supported some of the research described in this commentary.

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