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Introduction: Towering Judges – A Conceptual and Comparative Analysis 导言:杰出的法官——一个概念和比较分析

Towering Judges Pub Date : 2021-03-25 DOI: 10.1017/9781108879194.001

R. Abeyratne, Iddo Porat

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Justice Cepeda’s Institution-Building on the Colombian Constitutional Court: A Fusion of the Political and the Legal 塞佩达法官的哥伦比亚宪法法院制度建设:政治与法律的融合

Towering Judges Pub Date : 2021-03-25 DOI: 10.1017/9781108879194.012

David E. Landau

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The Civil Law Tradition, the Pinochet Constitution, and Judge Eugenio Valenzuela 民法传统、皮诺切特宪法和法官巴伦苏埃拉

Towering Judges Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/9781108879194.016

S. Verdugo

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Towering Judges Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/9781108879194.019

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