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Mila Versteeg

How Constitutions Fail

Mila Versteeg
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Adam Chilton

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Mila Versteeg & Adam Chilton, How Constitutions Fail.
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Mila Versteeg
Center for International & Comparative Law
Program in Constitutional Law
Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program
Center for the Study of Race and Law
Center for Public Law and Political Economy
Center for Empirical Studies in Law
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