Notes: The "right" redd framework: National laws that best protect indigenous rights in a global redd regime

Fordham Law Review

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 821-875

  Baez, Stephanie ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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