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After Cologne: male circumcision and the law. Parental right, religious liberty or criminal assault?
- Correspondence to Professor Reinhard Merkel, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Rothenbaumchaussee 33, Hamburg 20148, Germany; reinhard.merkel{at}jura.uni-hamburg.de
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After Cologne: male circumcision and the law. Parental right, religious liberty or criminal assault?
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- Received December 10, 2012
- Revised February 26, 2013
- Accepted February 28, 2013
- First published May 22, 2013.
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April 27, 2016
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