From the revenue rule to soft law and back again: The consequences for 'society' of the social governance of international tax competition

Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 217-235

  Maurer, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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