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- ↑ Professor Michael I. Krauss' Retirement Celebration Speech , retrieved 2021-10-18
- ↑ Alternative Law Firms, The Economist (August 13, 2011)
- ↑ I Was Never Trump. Not Anymore., The Wall Street Journal (September 2, 2020)
