Constitutional Correlates of the Rule of Law

Mila Versteeg; ;

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Constitutional Correlates of the Rule of Law

Mila Versteeg

CO-AUTHORS Tom Ginsburg

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Cambridge University Press

DATE

2017

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Mila Versteeg

Citation

Tom Ginsburg & Mila Versteeg, Constitutional Correlates of the Rule of Law, in Maurice Adams, Anne Claartje Margreet Meuwese, & E. M. H. Hirsch Ballin Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: Bridging Idealism and Realism, Cambridge University Press, 506-525 (2017).

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