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This article was originally presented as a paper at a conference in April 1981 on Critical Legal Studies, organised by the Law Faculty of the University of Kent.

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Schiff, D. Phenomenology and jurisprudence. Liverpool Law Rev 4, 5–18 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03185304

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