Jerome Frank Quotes

1889–1957 United States

Jerome New Frank (September 10, 1889 – January 13, 1957) was a legal philosopher who played a leading role in the legal realism movement, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

Courts on Trial (1950)

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Law and the Modern Mind (1930)

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.

Law and the Modern Mind (1930)

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Law and the Modern Mind (1930)

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

Law and the Modern Mind (1930)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jerome Frank (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.