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Capturing Profit from Disaster: The Assets Company Ltd and the Afterlife of the City of Glasgow Bank 从灾难中获取利润:资产有限公司和格拉斯哥城市银行的来世

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1093/AJLH/NJAA021

Seán O’Reilly

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From Disputation Hall to High Office: Swedish Students’ Legal Dissertations at German and Dutch Universities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 从辩论大厅到高级办公室:十七、十八世纪德国和荷兰大学的瑞典学生的法律论文

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-02-26 DOI: 10.1093/AJLH/NJAA024

Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen

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Gendering Citizenship and Decolonizing Justice in 1960s Ghana: Revisiting the Struggle for Family Law Reform 1960年代加纳的公民性别化与非殖民化司法:重新审视家庭法改革的斗争

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-02-03 DOI: 10.1093/AJLH/NJAA015

K. Skinner

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Race and Relevance: Arthur Garfield Hays and the Integration of the American Bar Association, 1938-1943 种族与相关性:阿瑟·加菲尔德·海斯与美国律师协会的整合，1938-1943

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-02-03 DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njaa011

R. Hamm

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njab005

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njab009

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njab010

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njab002

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njaa032

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njab021

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