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How Policy Shapes Politics: Rights, Courts, Litigation and the Struggle over Injury Compensation. By Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $39.95 cloth.

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How Policy Shapes Politics: Rights, Courts, Litigation and the Struggle over Injury Compensation. By Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 256 pp. $39.95 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

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Law & Society Review , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 1051 - 1053
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