New Legal Science in the Dual Penal State
Critical Analysis of Law and the Legitimacy of State Power
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New Legal Science pushes legal discourse beyond its traditional parochialism to tackle fundamental issues confronting all modern legal systems as such, including the legitimacy challenge of state power through ‘law’ posed most acutely by penal law.
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