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8 - Democratic Erosion and Constitution-Making Moments: The Role of Transnational Legal Norms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2019

By
David E. Landau
Edited by
Gregory Shaffer ,
Tom Ginsburg  and
Terence C. Halliday
Gregory Shaffer
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Tom Ginsburg
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Terence C. Halliday
Affiliation:
American Bar Foundation
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Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order , pp. 234 - 264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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