Título: Courts on Trial Myth and Reality in American Justice

Editora:Princeton University Press

Autor: Jerome Frank

ISBN: x

Disponibilidade: Pronta Entrega

Nº de Páginas: 442

Encadernação: Encadernado

Ano: 1973

Contents:

The needless mystery of court-house government

Fights and rights

Facts are guesses

Modern legal magic

Wizards and lawyers

The "fight" theory versus de "thuth" theory

The procedural reformers

The jury system

Defenses oh the jury system - suggested reforms

Are judges human?

Psychological approaches

Criticism of trial-court decisions - the gestalt

A trial as a communicative process

"Legal Science" and "Legal Engineering"

The upper-court myth

Legal edication

Special training for trial judges

The cult of the robe

Precedents and stability

Codification

Wosds and music: legislation and judicial interpretation

Constitutions - the merry-go-round

Legal reasoning

Da capo

The anthropological approach

Natural law

The pasychology of litigants

The unblindfolding of justice

Classicism and romanticism

Justice and emotions

Questioning some legal axioms

Reason and unreason-ideals