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- ↑ "Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ↑ Tzevelekos, Vassilis; Kapotas, Panos (2016). "Book Review: European Consensus and the Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights, by Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)". Common Market Law Review. 53 (4).
- ↑ Lock, Tobias (2015). "Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, European Consensus and the Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights". Human Rights Law Review: ngv034. doi:10.1093/hrlr/ngv034.
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