South Sudan’s Dualistic Constitution

Date

2013

Citation

Kevin Cope, South Sudan’s Dualistic Constitution, in The Social & Political Foundations of Constitutions , Cambridge University Press, 295–321 (2013).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Kevin Cope

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

Human Rights Program

Center for the Study of Race and Law

Immigration Law

The John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

Center for Empirical Studies in Law

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