A brief history of mass restitution litigation in the United States

Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 341-377

  Sebok, Anthony J ^a  

^a BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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