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- ↑ "Professor Carol Harlow | British Academy". Britac.ac.uk. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ↑ Harlow, Carol (1979). Administrative liability: a comparative study of French and English Law (PhD thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
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