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Policing the Open Road

How Cars Transformed American Freedom

Sarah A. Seo

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ISBN 9780674260344

Publication Date: 08/10/2021

352 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

24 photos, 2 tables

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Sarah A. Seo is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure and legal history. She clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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