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Neocontract Polemics and Unconscionable Scholarship

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Peter W. Huber, Liability: The Legal Revolution And Its Consequences. New York: Basic Books, 1988. 288 pp. $19.95.

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Robert M. Hayden
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Law & Society Review , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 1990 , pp. 863 - 874
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Copyright © 1990 The Law and Society Association.

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