Law and the Modern Mind

Presents a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. This controversial thesis is that the decisions made by judge and jury are determined to an enormous extent by powerful, concealed, and highly idiosyncratic psychological prejudices that these decision-makers bring to the courtroom.

Law and the Modern Mind first appeared in 1930 when, in the words of Judge Charles E. Clark, it "fell like a bomb on the legal world." In the generations since, its influence has grown-today it is accepted as a classic of general jurisprudence.The work is a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. Jerome Frank's controversial thesis is that the decisions made by judge and jury are determined to an enormous extent by powerful, concealed, and highly idiosyncratic psychological prejudices that these decision-makers bring to the courtroom.

Autorentext

Jerome Frank, Brian H. Bix

Inhalt

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, Preface to Sixth Printing, PART ONE THE BASIC LEGAL MYTH, AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES, PART TWO THE BASIC MYTH, AND CERTAIN BRILLIANT LEGAL THINKERS, PART THREE CONCLUSION, APPENDIXES, Index