Jerome Frank
- Jurist
- Jerome Frank
- School
- American Legal Realism
- Theory
- Legal Realism; Fact Scepticism — uncertainty lies not only in rules but in the finding of facts at trial; psychological critique of the "myth" of legal certainty.
- Quote
Law is not a fixed body of rules but what courts actually decide in concrete cases
- Books
Law and the Modern Mind (1930), Courts on Trial (1949)
- Propounded
Fact Scepticism (Legal Realism); psychological critique of the 'myth' of legal certainty at the trial-court level
- Born
- 1889
- Died
- 1957
- Portrait
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