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Party Politics or Judicial Independence? The Regime Politics Literature Hits the Law Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Thomas M. Keck
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , Spring 2007 , pp. 511 - 544
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2007 

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