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Courts on Trial Jerome Frank

Courts on Trial By Jerome Frank

Courts on Trial by Jerome Frank


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Summary

Gives insight into the operations of the courts, this work demonstrates the use of 'social sciences' in analyzing a legal problem. It is of interest to the lawyer, anthropologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher.

Courts on Trial Summary

Courts on Trial by Jerome Frank

CONTENTS: I. The Needless Mystery of Court House Government. II. Fights and Rights. III. Facts Are Guesses. IV. Modern Legal Magic. V. Wizards and Lawyers. VI. The Fight Theory versus the Truth Theory. VII. The Procedural Reformers. VIII. The Jury System. IX. Defenses of the Jury System--Suggested Reforms. X. Are Judges Human? XI. Psychological Approaches. XII. Criticism of Trial-Court Decisions--The Gestalt. XIII. A Trial as a Communicative Process. XIV. Legal Science and Legal Engineering. XV. The Upper-Court Myth. XVI. Legal Education. XVII. Special Training for Trial Judges. XVIII. The Cult of the Robe. XIX. Precedents and Stability. XX. Codification. XXI. Words and Music: Legislation and Judicial Interpretation. XXII. Constitutions--The Merry-Go-Round. XIII. Legal Reasoning. XXIV. Da Capo. XXV. The Anthropological Approach. XXVI. Natural Law. XXVII. The Psychology of Litigants. XXVIII. The Unblindfolding of Justice. XXIX. Classicism and Romanticism. XXX. Justice and Emotions. XXXI. Questioning Some Legal Axioms. XXXII. Reason and Unreason--Ideals.

Courts on Trial Reviews

Nothing that Judge Frank offers can be brushed aside lightly. Truly a book for all who believe that wise settlement of disputes between man and man, or the state and man, are important to the comfort, safety, and liberties of all.--New York Times Book Review One of those rare books on lawyers and courts which can be read with pleasure and profit by laymen.--New Republic What gives this book might is the candor with which Judge Frank discusses the workings of our courts, the comprehensiveness and thoroughness of his analysis, and the sagacity of his comments and proposals... It is an important book.--New York Law Journal This book is an interesting, stimulating, and effective presentation by an author who knows all about his subject.--Arthur Garfield Hays, Saturday Review

About Jerome Frank

Jerome Frank was distinguished as a lawyer, chairman of the SEC, federal judge, and writer.

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GOR013560190
9780691027555
0691027552
Courts on Trial by Jerome Frank
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Princeton University Press
19730921
456
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