Guyora Binder

University at Buffalo Law School

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1.

Cultural Relativism and Cultural Imperialism in Human Rights Law

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 5, pp. 211-221, 1999
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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international law, international human rights, cultural relativism, post-colonial states, political theory

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Critical Legal Studies

A COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, pp. 267-278, D. Patterson, ed., 2010 , Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-023
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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jurisprudence, Critical Legal Studies, indeterminacy thesis, rights theory, policy analysis

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Framed: Utilitarianism and Punishment of the Innocent

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Framed: Utilitarianism and Punishment of the Innocent

Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 115-224, 2000
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 10 Aug 2008
Guyora Binder and Nick Smith
University at Buffalo Law School and University of New Hampshire
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Framed: Utilitarianism and Punishment of the Innocent

Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 32, p. 115, 2000
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 09 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2017
Guyora Binder and Nicholas J. Smith
University at Buffalo Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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criminal law, punishment, utilitarianism, institutions, transparency, Bentham

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The Origins of American Felony Murder Rules

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 57, pp. 59-208, 2004, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-016
Number of pages: 150 Posted: 09 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2017
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Criminal law, homicide, felony murder, legal history, common law

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The Case for Self-Determination

Stanford Journal of International Law, Vol. 29, pp. 223-272, 1993
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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international law, self-determination, group rights, human rights, political theory

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Making the Best of Felony Murder

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 91, p. 403, 2011, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012 - 007
Number of pages: 159 Posted: 31 Jul 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, homicide, felony murder, complicity, merger doctrine, strict liability, Dworkin

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Law and Literature

JOHNS HOPKINS GUIDE TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM, Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, Imre Szeman eds., 2006, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-022
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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law and literature, jurisprudence

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Punishment Theory: Moral or Political?

Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 5, p. 321, 2001-2002 , Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2002-001
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, punishment theory, utilitarianism, retribution, political theory

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The Rhetoric of Motive and Intent

Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 6, pp. 1-96, 2002 , Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-017
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, culpability, motive, intent, hate crimes

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Representing Nazism: Advocacy and Identity at the Trial of Klaus Barbie

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 98, p. 1321, 1988-1989, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1989-002
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 07 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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International Law, Criminal Law, War Crimes, Law & Literature, Cultural Studies, Holocaust

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Foundations of the Legislative Panopticon: Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation

SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Dec 2013
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Bentham, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence, Utilitarianism, Legislation

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What Is Criminal Law About?

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 114, p. 1173, 2016, University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-027
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2017
Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg
University at Buffalo Law School and Stanford Law School
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Criminal Law, Legal Education, Punishment Theory, Legal History, Race Discrimination

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Homicide

Chapter 31 in The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law, Marcus Dubber and Tatjana Hörnle Eds., ISBN 978–0–19–967359–9, SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-012
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Feb 2015
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Criminal Law, Legal History, Legal Theory, Homicide, Comparative Law

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The Meaning of Killing

MODERN HISTORIES OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, pp. 88-114, Markus D. Dubber, Lindsay Farmer, eds., 2007, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Jul 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, homicide, legal history

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Felony Murder and Mens Rea Default Rules: A Study in Statutory Interpretation

Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 4, pp. 399-485, 2000, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2000-001
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 29 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, homicide, felony murder, culpability, statutory interpretation

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The Slavery of Emancipation

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 16, pp. 2063-2102, 1996
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Constitutional Law, Legal History, Slavery, Thirteenth Amendment, Political Theory

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Capital Punishment of Unintentional Felony Murder

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 92, p. 1141, 2017, University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-045, Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Apr 2017
Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg and Brenner Fissell
University at Buffalo Law School, Stanford Law School and Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law
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criminal law, death penalty, constitutional law, legal theory, homicide

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The Law-as-Literature Trope

LAW AND LITERATURE, pp. 63-89, Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis, eds., Oxford University Press, 1999
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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law and literature, jurisprudence, cultural studies, interpretation

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Why Law Matters for Our Obligations

Critical Analysis of Law 2:2 (2015), University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-032
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Oct 2016
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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jurisprudence, obligation, political philosophy, rights

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Aesthetic Judgment and Legal Justification

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 43, pp. 79-112, 2008, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-015
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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law and literature, jurisprudence, interpretation

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Did the Slaves Author the Thirteenth Amendment? An Essay in Redemptive History

Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, Vol. 5, pp. 471-505, 1993, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1993-001
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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constitutional law, constitutional history, law and literature, slavery, civil rights

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The Culpability of Felony Murder

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 965, 2007-2008, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-009
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 30 Jul 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, felony murder, culpability, homicide, harm, utility, expressive theory of law

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The Dialectic of Duplicity: Treaty Conflict and Political Contradiction

Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 34, pp. 329-549, 1985
Number of pages: 222 Posted: 28 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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International Law, treaties, treaty conflict, sovereignty, state autonomy, critical legal studies, Hegel

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The Poetics of the Pragmatic: What Literary Criticisms of Law Offers Posner

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 53, pp. 1509-1539, 2001, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2000-002
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Law and Literature, Posner, Pragmatism, Jurisprudence

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Meaning and Motive in the Law of Homicide

Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 3, pp. 755-774, 2000 , Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2005-001
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, homicide, motive, felony murder, culpability

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Penal Incapacitation: A Situationist Critique

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2017, University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-037
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 25 Jan 2017
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Criminal Law, Punishment Theory, Proportionality, Incapacitation, Law and Psychology

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Cultural Criticisms of Law

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 49, p. 1149, 1996-1997, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg
University at Buffalo Law School and Stanford Law School
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legal history, critical legal studies, new historicism, law and society, law and literature

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Authority to Proscribe and Punish International Crimes

63 U. Toronto L.J. 278 (2013), SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-037
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2013
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, international law, International Criminal Court, jurisdiction, punishment theory

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The Coptown Case: Inviolable Status and Desert

Inherent and Instrumental Values, Excursions in Value Inquiry, G. John M. Abbarno, ed. University Press of America, 2015, SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-013
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Feb 2015
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Criminal Law, Punishment Theory, Moral Philosophy, Legal Theory, Frances Kamm

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Beyond Criticism

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 55, pp. 888-916, 1988, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1998-001
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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critical legal studies, jurisprudence, indeterminacy, instrumentalism

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Mastery, Slavery and Emancipation

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 10, pp. 1435-1480, 1989
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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constitutional law, legal history, slavery, Hegel, jurisprudence, civil rights

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Twentieth Century Legal Metaphors for Self and Society

LOOKING BACK AT LAW'S CENTURY, pp. 151-184, A. Sarat, R. Kagan, B. Garth, eds., Cornell University Press, 2002
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Law & Literature, Law & Society, Legal History

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Victims and Significance of Causing Harm

Pace Law Review, Vol. 28, p. 713, Summer 2008, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012 - 008
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 31 Jul 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, harm, causation, moral luck, victims

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Post-Totalitarian Politics

Mich. L. Rev., Vol. 914, pp. 1491-1528, 1993, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1993-002
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Social theory, international law, Hegel, civil society

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Revolution as a Constitutional Concept

ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE METHODOLOGIE JURIDIQUE, LE RECOURS AUX OBJECTIFS DE LA LOI, pp. 341-352, E. Story, ed., Scientia, 1990, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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constitutional history, revolution, Lincoln, constitutional theory

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Institutions and Linguistic Conventions: The Pragmatism of Lieber's Legal Hermeneutics

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 16, pp. 2169-2189, 1995, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1995-001
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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legal history, jurisprudence, law and literature, interpretation, constitutional law

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The Puzzle of Inciting Suicide

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 56 (Forthcoming), University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-025
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 Jul 2018
Guyora Binder and Luis E. Chiesa
University at Buffalo Law School and State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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Criminal Law, Suicide, Causation, Complicity, Legal Theory

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States of War: Defensive Force Among Nations

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 7, pp. 439-461, 2009, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-024
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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International Law, Law of War, Self-Defense, Kant

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What’s Left?

Texas Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 1985, 1990-1991, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1991-001
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Critical Legal Studies, jurisprudence, political theory, revolution, democracy

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Penal Reform and Progressive Ideology

Reviews in American History, Vol. 9, pp. 224-232, 1981, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1981-001
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Oct 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Legal history, criminal law, probation, parole

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Angels and Infidels: Hierarchy and Historicism in Medieval Legal History

Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 35, pp. 527-599, 1986
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 27 Sep 2011
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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legal history, comparative law, law & religion, law & society

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On Critical Legal Studies as Guerrilla Warfare

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 1, 1987, SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1987-102
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Feb 2015
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Critical Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Jurisprudence

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On Hegel, on Slavery, But Not on My Head

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 11, p. 563, 1989-1990, SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1989-103
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Feb 2015
Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School
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Slavery, Civil Rights, Legal Theory, Hegel, Frederick Douglass

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Literary Criticisms of Law

Princeton University Press, 1999
Posted: 15 May 2000
Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg
University at Buffalo Law School and Stanford Law School

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Cultural Criticism of Law

in the 49 Stanford Law Review 1149 (1997).
Posted: 19 Sep 1997
Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg
University at Buffalo Law School and Stanford Law School

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