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Mental capacity and states of exception: revisiting disability law with Giorgio AgambenFootnote*

Penelope WellerGraduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University, Melbourne, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 400-410 | Published online: 10 Feb 2017

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