Legal History for a Dummy: A Comment on the Role of History in Judicial Interpretation of the Confrontation Clause

Tillers, Peter

doi:10.2139/ssrn.693862

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Legal History for a Dummy: A Comment on the Role of History in Judicial Interpretation of the Confrontation Clause

Peter Tillers

Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 235, 2005

Abstract:
Judges can neither do good legal history nor recognize good legal history. Q.E.D.

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Keywords: Confrontation Clause, Legal History, Misuse of Legal History

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Date posted: December 5, 2006

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Tillers, Peter, Legal History for a Dummy: A Comment on the Role of History in Judicial Interpretation of the Confrontation Clause. Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 235, 2005. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=879272 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.693862

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