The International Community as a Legal Community

Towards World Constitutionalism: Issues in the Legal Ordering of the World Community

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 853-909

  Macdonald, Ronald St John ^a  

^a Lifeof the Canadian Council on International Law   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1163/9789047415916_035     Document Type: Chapter

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