Jerome Frank
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Jerome Frank (September 10, 1889 - January 13, 1957) was a legal philosopher and United States federal court judge who played a leading role in the legal realism movement.
[edit] Biography
Frank was born in New York City in 1889. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
He joined the Securities and Exchange Commission. Then he became a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1941 until he died in 1957.
Frank was general counsel to the Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA) during the New Deal, where he supervised the work of Alger Hiss, a staff attorney at the time.
[edit] Works
Frank published many influential books, including Law and the Modern Mind (1930), which argues for ‘legal realism’ and emphasizes the psychological forces at work in legal matters. His other major work, Courts on Trial (1949), stressed the uncertainties and fallibility of the judicial process.
