Professor Roger Hood

Law

CBE, QC (Hon), PhD, DCL, LLD (Hon), FBA

12 June 1936 - 17 November 2020

Link to Curriculum Vitae

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2020)
Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Research Associate, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (from 2005 to 2020)
Reader, then Professor of Criminology (1996), and Director, Centre for Criminological Research (now Centre for Criminology), University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1973 to 2003)
Adjunct (Visiting) Professor, City University, Hong Kong Law School (from 2008 to 2011)
Visiting Professor, University of Virginia School of Law (from 2004 to 2011)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong (from 2003 to 2004)
Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge (from 1969 to 1973)
Assistant Director of Research, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge (from 1967 to 1973)
Lecturer, Social Administration, University of Durham (from 1963 to 1967)
Research Officer, London School of Economics (from 1961 to 1963)
Postgraduate, Downing College, Cambridge (from 1958 to 1961)
Undergraduate, London School of Economics (from 1954 to 1957)

Research Interests

Death penalty
Race and sentencing
Parole

Selected publications

‘Is Public Opinion a Justifiable Reason not to Abolish the Death Penalty? A Comparative Analysis of Surveys in Eight Countries’, Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law (in Honour of Franklin E. Zimring), vol. 23 (2), 2018 (forthcoming January 2019)
‘Towards the global elimination of the death penalty: a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment’ (with Carolyn Hoyle), in Pat Carlen and Leandro Ayres França (eds), Alternative Criminologies, London: Routledge, 2017, 400-422.
‘Striving to Abolish the Death Penalty: Some Personal Reflections on Oxford’s Criminological Contribution to Human Rights’, in Mary Bosworth, Carolyn Hoyle, and Lucia Zedner (eds.), Changing Contours of Criminal Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 182-196.
(with Carolyn Hoyle), The Death Penalty: A Worldwide Perspective (5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
‘Staying Optimistic’, in Lill Scherdin (ed.), Capital Punishment (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
(with Surya Deva [eds.]) Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics and Public Opinion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
The Death Penalty in Malaysia: Public opinion on the mandatory death penalty (London: The Death Penalty Project, 2013).
For a fuller list see link to Curriculum Vitae

Other professional memberships and roles

Consultant for the study on Death Penalty in Malaysia for the International Centre for Law and Legal Studies (I-CeLLS Malaysia) (from 2014 to 2016)
Consultant to the European Parliament on Enhancing EU Action on the Death Penalty in Asia (from 2012)
Consultant, The Death Penalty Project (from 2003)
Consultant, Great Britain-China Centre (from 2007 to 2009)
Member, Foreign Secretary’s Expert Group on the Death Penalty Panel (from 1998)
Fellow of the British Academy (from 1992)
Expert Consultant on Death Penalty United Nations (from 1988 to 2005)
Member, Parole System Review (from 1987 to 1988)
President, British Society of Criminology (from 1986 to 1989)
Member, Judicial Studies Board (from 1979 to 1985)
Member, Parole Board for England and Wales (from 1972 to 1973)

Research awards and grants

European Society of Criminology, ESC European Criminology Award 'for a lifetime contribution as a European Criminologist' (2012).
Beccaria Medal of the International Society for Social Defence and for a Humane Criminal Policy (2011).
Hon. Ll.D., Edinburgh Napier University (2011).
Hon. Ll.D., Birmingham University (2008).
Sellin-Glueck Award, American Society of Criminology 'for international contributions to criminology' (1986).

Professor Christopher Hood

Politics and International Relations

CBE, BA, BLitt, MA, DLitt, FBA

Emeritus Fellow from 2014 to 2025

1947-2025

Professor Hood specialized in the study of executive government, regulation, and public-sector reform.

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Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014 to 2025)
ESRC Professorial Fellowship (from 2011 to 2015)
Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College (from 2001 to 2014)
Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, London School of Economics (Head, 1995-8) (from 1989 to 2000)
Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney (from 1986 to 1989)
Lecturer in Politics, University of Glasgow (from 1972 to 1986)
Senior Teaching Fellow, National University of Singapore (from 1984 to 1985)
Postgraduate, University of Glasgow (from 1968 to 1971)
Undergraduate, University of York (from 1965 to 1968)

Research Interests

Study of executive government, regulation, and public-sector reform

Selected publications

Link to publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government (from 2015 to 2018)
Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2011 for services to social science (from 2011)
Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States) (from 2010)
Fellow, Sunningdale Institute (from 2007)
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (from 2007)
Director, ESRC Research Programme, Public Services: Quality, Performance, Delivery (from 2004 to 2010)
Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies of the Social Sciences (from 2002)
Elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (from 2001)
Elected Fellow of the British Academy
(from 1996)

Research awards and grants

ESRC Professorial Fellowship (from 2010 to 2015).
Leverhulme Trust project award (from 2010 to 2013).
William E. Mosher and the Frederick C. Mosher Award for his article 'Can We? Administrative Limits Revisited' by The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) (2011).
Awarded Public Management Research Association's H. George Frederickson Award for Career Contributions to Public Management Research (2007).
ESRC grant (2004).

Professor Birke Häcker

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2016

I work mainly on English and German private law with a strong comparative and historical focus. This includes especially the law of contract, tort law, the law of trusts, property law, and the law of succession, and it extends to adjoining areas of commercial and company law. I also have an interest in aspects of tax law and in the principles governing the conflict of laws.

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Background

Schlegel Chair in Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law, and Director of the Institute of International and Comparative Private Law, University of Bonn
Professor of Comparative Law, University of Oxford (2016-2022)
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2011)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2008)

Research Interests

General private and business law
Comparative law
Legal history

Selected publications

'Mistaken Gifts after Pitt v Holt' (2014) 67 Current Legal Problems 333-372.
'A Case Note on All Souls College v Cod[d]rington (1720)' (2012) 76 Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law 1051-1077.
Consequences of Impaired Consent Transfers: A Structural Comparison of English and German Law (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009; Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013).
'Proprietary Restitution after Impaired Consent Transfers: A Generalised Power Model' (2009) 68 Cambridge Law Journal 324-360.
Full list of publications

Professor Simon Green

MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FSA

Emeritus Fellow since 2021

Background

Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds (from 2011)
Birkbeck Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge (from 2013 to 2014)
Reader in Modern British History, University of Leeds (from 2004 to 2011)
Extraordinary Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2021)
Visiting Professor of History and the Social Sciences, the University of Chicago (from 1991 to 1992)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1982 to 1989)
Research Student, Nuffield College, Oxford (from 1981 to 1982)
Scholar in Modern History, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1978 to 1981)

Research Interests

Religion and the secularisation question in Britain since c. 1850
The history of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1660
Modern political thought

Selected publications

(ed. with Peregrine Horden), All Souls and the Wider World: Statesmen, Scholars and Adventurers, c. 1850-1950 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
The Passing of Protestant England: Secularisation and Social Change, c. 1920-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010; paperback and e-book editions, 2012).
(ed. with Robert Crowcroft and Richard Whiting), The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy: Maurice Cowling and Conservatism (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010).
(ed.) All Souls under the Ancien Regime: Politics, Learning and the Arts, c. 1600-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
(ed. with Richard Whiting) The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback edition, 2002).
Religion in the Age of Decline: Organisation and Experience in Industrial Yorkshire, c. 1870-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback edition, 2002).
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Other professional memberships and roles

Co-editor (with G.C.F. Forster) of Northern History (from 1997)
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Teaching

The social history of religion
Intellectual history
The history of the universities

Research awards and grants

British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow (from 2011 to 2012).

Dr Benjamin Gray

Lecturer in Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London

MA, MPhil, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2013

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Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2006 to 2013)
Undergraduate, Merton College, Oxford (from 2002 to 2006)

Research Interests

Greek history and thought of the later Classical and Hellenistic periods
Ancient Greece and modern political and ethical theory

Selected publications

Publications (External Link)

Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill

Law

MA, DPhil

Emeritus Fellow since 2014

I am an international lawyer, dealing primarily with the legal aspects of refugee flows, migration, and forced displacement. I am also involved with related issues, including statelessness, deprivation of citizenship, ‘counter-terrorism’, and the challenges to human rights raised by the widespread emphasis globally on ‘securitisation’, and more recently as a consequence of COVID-19. In addition, I remain particularly interested in the activities of international and regional organisations, both in contributing to the resolution of humanitarian problems and as potentially ‘representative’ forums. I practised as a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London, from 2002-2018, and from July 2017–December 2021, I was Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales; I have been an Honorary Professor since January 2022. In February 2020, I was awarded the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award at Berkeley Law for my contributions to international law and international refugee law, and in September 2021, Oxford University Press published the fourth edition of The Refugee in International Law (with Professor Jane McAdam and Emma Dunlop).

External homepages:

http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2002 to 2014)
Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford (from 1998 to 2014)
Rubin Director of Research, Institute of European Studies, University of Oxford (from 1997 to 2002)
Professor of Asylum Law, University of Amsterdam (from 1994 to 1999)
Professor of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (from 1989 to 1997)
Senior Legal Research Officer and variously Legal Adviser, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, London, Sydney, Geneva (from 1976 to 1988)
Visiting Lecturer, Public International Law, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston-upon-Thames (from 1973 to 1976)
Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer, The College of Law, London (from 1971 to 1976)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Wadham College, Oxford (from 1965 to 1974)

Research Interests

Public international law, with particular interests in immigration, refugees, statelessness and asylum, the use of force, elections and electoral standards

Selected publications

‘A Short History of International Refugee Law: The Early Years’
‘The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Sources of International Refugee Law’, (2020) 69 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 1
‘A Brief and Somewhat Sceptical Perspective on the International Organization for Migration’, Refugee Studies Centre Workshop, ‘IOM: The UN Migration Agency?’, Oxford, 2 February 2019
‘United Nations Treaty-Making: Refugees and Stateless Persons’, in Simon Chesterman, David Malone & Santiago Villalpando, eds., Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, Ch. 22, 427-49
'The Global Compacts and the Future of Refugee and Migrant Protection in the Asia Pacific Region’, (2018) 30 International Journal of Refugee Law 674-683
with Philippe Weckel, eds. Protection des migrants et des réfugiés au XXIe siècle: Aspects de droit international/Migration and Refugee Protection in the 21st Century: International Legal Aspects, Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2015
'Asylum (Colombia v. Peru), 1949 and Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 20 November 1950 in the Asylum Case (Colombia v. Peru), 1950', in Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida & Jean-Marc Sorel, eds., Latin America and the International Court of Justice: Contributions to International Law, London: Routledge, 2017, 170-82
'Setting the Scene: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants at Sea – The Need for a Long-Term, Protection-Centred Vision', in Violeta Moreno-Lax & Efthymios Papastavridis, eds., 'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2017, 17-31
'The Movements of People between States in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Urgent Institutional Change', (2016) 28 International Journal of Refugee Law 679
'The Mediterranean Papers: Athens, Naples, and Istanbul', (2016) 28 International Journal of Refugee Law 276
‘Migration and Forced Migration Today: Challenges for the Rule of Law’, in Guy S. Goodwin-Gill & Philippe Weckel, eds., Protection des migrants et des réfugiés au XXIe siècle: Aspects de droit international/Migration and Refugee Protection in the 21st Century: International Legal Aspects, Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2015, 3-22
'Current Challenges in Refugee Law', in Jean-Pierre Gauci, Mariagiulia Giuffré & Evangelina (Lilian) Tsourdi, eds., Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law: Current Protection Challenges, Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2015, 9-28
‘Non-Refoulement, Temporary Refuge, and the “New” Asylum Seekers’, in David Cantor & Jean-François Durieux, eds., Refuge from Inhumanity? War Refugees and International Humanitarian Law, Leiden: Brill, 2014, 433-59.
‘The International Law of Refugee Protection’, in Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long & Nando Sigona, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 36-47.
‘The Dynamic of International Refugee Law’, (2013) 25 International Journal of Refugee Law, 651.
'Palestine, UN Membership and Popular Representation: International Legal Challenges and Strategic Options’, in Mutaz Qafisheh, ed., Palestine Membership in the United Nations: Legal and Practical Implications, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 30-44.
‘The Right to Seek Asylum: Interception at Sea and the Principle of Non-refoulement’, (2011) 23 International Journal of Refugee Law 443.
‘The Politics of Refugee Protection’, (2008) 27(1) Refugee Survey Quarterly 8.
(ed. with Hélène Lambert), The Limits of Transnational Law: Refugee Law, Policy Harmonization and Judicial Dialogue in the European Union, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
(ed. with Ian Brownlie, Q.C.), Brownlie’s Documents on Human Rights, 6th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Free and Fair Elections, 2nd revised and expanded edn. (Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2006)
‘Mr Al-Jedda, Deprivation of Citizenship, and International Law’, paper (revised) presented at Middlesex University, 14 February 2014
‘Deprivation of Citizenship resulting in Statelessness and its Implications in International Law: Opinion’, 12 March 2014
‘Deprivation of Citizenship resulting in Statelessness and its Implications in International Law: Further Comments’, 6 April 2014
‘Deprivation of Citizenship, Statelessness and International Law: More Authority (if it were needed...)’, 5 May 2014

Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Professor, University of St Andrews

BA, AM, PhD

Quondam Fellow since 2020

Background

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015 to 2020)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010 to 2015)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007 to 2010)
Postgraduate, Harvard University, USA (from 2000 to 2007)
Undergraduate, Wellesley College, USA (from 1994 to 1998)

Research Interests

Later medieval France
Legal, political, and institutional history
Lordship and power
Women and gender in the Middle Ages

Selected publications

The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants’ Revolt, Oxford Studies in Medieval European History (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Violence and the State in Languedoc, c. 1250-1400, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
‘Two Kinds of Freedom: Language and Practice in Late Medieval Rural Revolts’, Edad Media. Revista de Historia, Vol. 21 (2020): 113-52
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt, ed. Justine Firnhaber-Baker with Dirk Schoenaers (Routledge, 2017)
‘Seigneurial War and Royal Power in Later Medieval Southern France’, Past & Present, no. 208 (2010): 37–76
‘From God’s Peace to the King’s Order: Late Medieval Limitations on Non-Royal Warfare’, Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol. 23 (2007): 19-30
(ed. with Meredith Cohen), Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming)
‘“Injurious to Our Lordship and Sovereignty”: Seigneurial War and Royal Power in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France’, Past and Present; forthcoming
‘From God’s Peace to the King’s Order: Late Medieval Limitations on Non-Royal Warfare’, Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 23 (2006), 19-30
‘The Fonds d’Armagnac: Some Archival Resources for the History of Languedocian Women’, Medieval Feminist Forum, No. 39 (2005), 22-9

Other professional memberships and roles

American Historical Association
Medieval Academy of America
International Medieval Society - Paris
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Research awards and grants

Whiting Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities, Whiting Foundation (from 2006 to 2007).
Bourse Chateaubriand, Government of France (from 2003 to 2004).
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson Foundation (from 2000 to 2001).

Professor Patrick Finglass

Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol

MA, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2017

Background

Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol (from 2017)
Professor of Greek, University of Nottingham (from 2012 to 2017)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2010 to 2017)
Associate Professor in Greek, University of Nottingham (from 2009 to 2012)
Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Nottingham (from 2006 to 2008)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2008)
Undergraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1997 to 2001)

Research Interests

Archaic and classical Greek poetry, especially Stesichorus, Pindar, and Sophocles

Selected publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Member, Editorial Board, Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (from 2014)
Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College (from 2014)
Member, Council, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (from 2014)
Member, Advisory Board, Skenè: Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (from 2014)
Head of Department, Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (from 2013 to 2014)
Member, Comitato Scientifico, Eikasmos: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica (from 2011)
External Examiner, Department of Classics, King's College London (from 2010 to 2014)

Research awards and grants

Leverhulme Trust, Philip Leverhulme Prize (2012).
Arts and Humanities Research Council, Early Career Research Fellowship (from 2012 to 2013).
British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant (2009).
Arts and Humanities Research Council, Research Leave Award (2009).
British Academy, Small Research Grant (2008).

Professor Paul Fendley

Natural Sciences

PhD

Senior Research Fellow since 2014

Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
Assistant Professor (until 2002), Associate Professor (until 2007) and, Professor (until August 2014), University of Virginia (from 1997 to 2014)
Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory (from 1996 to 1997)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Southern California (from 1993 to 1996)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Boston University (from 1990 to 1993)
Postgraduate, Harvard University (from 1985 to 1990)

Research Interests

Statistical mechanics
Condensed matter physics
Mathematical physics

Selected publications

Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Physics

Research awards and grants

Principal Investigator on US National Science Foundation Grants (1998-2015).
Sloan Foundation Fellowship.
Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator.

The Very Revd Dr John Drury

Literature

Emeritus Fellow since 2024

My book Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert was published by Allen Lane / Penguin in 2013. I am now working on an edition of Herbert’s complete poetry for Penguin Classics, due to be published in 2014.

Background

Chaplain and Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2024)
Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (from 1991 to 2003)
Dean of Chapel and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge (from 1981 to 1991)
Lecturer in Religious Studies, Sussex University (from 1979 to 1981)
Resident Canon of Norwich Cathedral and Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Norwich (Vice-Dean of Norwich, 1978) (from 1973 to 1979)
Chaplain and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (from 1969 to 1973)
Chaplain, Downing College, Cambridge (from 1966 to 1969)
Curate, St John’s Wood Church, London (from 1963 to 1966)
Ordained at Westcott House, Cambridge
Undergraduate, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (to 1961)

Research Interests

Theology
A study of the poetry of George Herbert in its historical context and for its present power and value

Selected publications

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert (London: Allen Lane, 2013).
Painting the Word (London: Yale University Press, 1999).
The Burning Bush (London: Fount, 1990).
Critics of the Bible, 1724-1873 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
The Parables in the Gospels (London: SPCK, 1985).
The Pot and the Knife (London: SCM Press, 1979).
Tradition and Design in Luke’s Gospel (London: Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1976).
Luke (London: Collins, 1973).
Angels and Dirt (London : Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1972).

Other professional memberships and roles

Hon. Student of Christ Church
Hon. Fellow of Exeter College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Hussey Lecturer, University of Oxford (1997)
Syndic, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (from 1988 to 1991)
Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Chichester (from 1980 to 1982)
Fleck Resident in Religion, Bryn Mawr College, USA (1978)
Member, Doctrine Commission of Church of England (from 1978 to 1982)
Joint Editor, Theology (from 1976 to 1986)

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