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Europe's Darker Legacies? Notes on ‘Mirror Reflections’, the ‘Constitution as Fetish’ and Other Such Linkages between the Past and the Future
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- German Law Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special issue - European Integration in the Shadow of Europe's Darker Pasts: The “Darker Legacies of Law in Europe” revisited , 01 February 2006 , pp. 241 - 255
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