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Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice

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Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice - Frank, Jerome
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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 ...

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Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice 1973, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691027555

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