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History, Justice, and the Constitution: Eric Adams

August 23, 2017 · by admin · in Scholarship and Activism forum

“One of the essentially hopeful ideas that resides at the heart of any legal order is that the law is aspirational. This necessarily involves critical reflection on the past as a way of trying to guide the future.”

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