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2023 Connecticut Appellate Review
By Kenneth J. Bartschi and Karen L. Dowd
Business Litigation: 2023 in Review
By William J. O’Sullivan
Recent Tort Developments
By James E. Wildes
The Ideological Origins of Connecticut’s State Constitutional Jurisprudence
By Mitchell S. Brody
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