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Douglas Laycock

How Remedies Became a Field: A History

Douglas Laycock
Date
2008
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Douglas Laycock, How Remedies Became a Field: A History, 27 Review of Litigation 161–268 (2008).
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Douglas Laycock
Constitutional Law and Legal History
Center for the First Amendment
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