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The ECJ’s Fatal Imbalance Its cavalier treatment of national security issues poses serious risk to public safety and sound commercial practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Richard A. Epstein
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data protectionprivacyEUUS
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Case Comments
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European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , September 2016 , pp. 330 - 340
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Copyright © The Authors 2016 

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Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, The New York University School of Law, Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus, and Senior Lecturer, The University of Chicago Law School. My thanks to Craig Fligor and Manuel Valle, The University of Chicago Law School, Class of 2017, for their excellent research assistance.

References

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12 Supra n. 1.

13 Supra n. 1.

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