Suchergebnisse

A Short Note on Methodology -- A Brief Biographical Sketch of Jerome Frank -- One — Foundations of american legal realism -- Holmes' Legal Positivism: The Forerunner of Legal Realism -- Roscoe Pound's Sociological Jurisprudence -- Institutional and Anthropological Approaches to Law -- Legal Realism and the Psychological Approach to Law -- Jerome Frank's Contribution -- Two — The crusade against the "myth" of legal certainty -- Why Do Men Crave Legal Certainty ? -- Legal Certainty: Frank's "Wasteland" of Modern Law -- The Road to Liberation -- The Consequences of Frank's Attack -- Three — Psychology as the new weapon of attack -- Frank's War of Liberation -- The Use of Psychological Materials: Jurisprudence as Therapy -- The Future of Psychological Tools in the Study of Law -- Four — The role of the judge in the judicial process -- What Courts Do In Fact -- The Anatomy of Court-House Government -- The Judicial "Hunch": The Contrapuntal Strains of Frank's Analysis of the Judicial Process -- The Upper-Court Myth and Its Effects: Rule-Skepticism and Fact-Skepticism -- Metaphysical Questions -- Five — Trial by jury and the problem of legal education -- Major Defects of the Jury System -- Suggested Reform of the Jury System -- The Conviction of Innocent Men -- Jury Verdicts and the Problem of Cadi-Justice -- The Relation of Legal Education to the Judicial Process -- How to Improve Legal Education -- Fusing Law and the Social Sciences: The Inter-Disciplinary Approach -- Six — Frank's contributions to the philosophy of American legal realism -- Legal "Axioms" and Frank's Suggested Remedies -- Criticism and Counter-Criticism of Jerome Frank's Philosophy of Law and of Legal Realism in General -- The Troublesome Problem of "Fact" and "Value" -- Some Selected Opinions of Judge Jerome Frank -- A Bibliography of the Writings of Jerome N. Frank -- General Works Used in This Study.

Justice Holmes' famous statement that "the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience' has had a profound effect on contemporary American jurisprudence. Holmes' monumental influence, together with the impact of positivism, American pragmatism,and more recently, psychoanalysis, have all played important roles in shaping the development of the school of American legal realism. One of the most controversial and provocative members of this school was Jerome Frank, who was not only a prolific writer on matters legal, but also an eminent corporation lawyer, a government counsel, an administrator (a Commissioner and later Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission), a law teacher, and a highly respected Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from May, 1941, until his death in January, 1957. Jerome Frank's fundamental idea is concerned with what he calls the "basic legal myth of rule certainty." Frank believes that the worship of legal rules is a carry-over into adult life of father-worship. According to his argument, the law becomes a father-substitute, with a corresponding preservation of childish thought-patterns. Although Frank will admit the necessity and the value of some legal rules, the exaggerated belief that these rules can guarantee legal certainty is for him the worst "sin" of modern jurisprudence. In the development of this idea, Frank is perhaps the first major writer -in jurisprudence to draw consciously on a concept of psychoanalysis.