FORMALISM AND ANTI-FORMALISM IN FRENCH AND GERMAN JUDICIAL METHODOLOGY

Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its Legal Traditions

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 205-228

  Curran, Vivian Grosswald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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