文档介绍：Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies
2005
Working Paper No. 110
Legal History for a Dummy: ment on the
Role of History in Judicial Interpretation of the Confrontation Clause
Peter Tillers
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Legal History for a Dummy: ment on the Role of History in Judicial
Interpretation of the Confrontation Clause
by Peter Tillers*
I struggled quite a bit over what I should talk about today. I know a little bit about
exploratory fact investigation1 and about related matters such as induction and what
philosophers of science call the logic of I thought about discussing the
worrisome implications of Crawford v. Washington3 for constitutional regulation of early
phases of criminal investigation,4 about the possibility that Crawford might further
weaken the already faint prospect that the Court might use the general due process
* Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
1 See, ., A Theory of Preliminary Fact Investigation, 24 . Davis L. Rev. 931 (1991).
2 Today the notion of a logic of