Courts on Trial
Paperback
- Price:
- $87.00/拢72.00
- ISBN:
- Published:
- Sep 21, 1973
- Copyright:
- 1949
- Pages:
- 456
- Size:
- 5.5 x 8.5 in.
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 鈥淔ight鈥� Theory versus the 鈥淭ruth鈥� 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. 鈥淟egal Science鈥� and 鈥淟egal Engineering.鈥� XV. The Upper-Court Myth. XVI. Legal Education. XVII. Special Training for Trial Judges. XVIII. The Cult of the Robe. XIX. Precedents and Stability. XX. Codification. XXI. Words and Music: Legislation and Judicial Interpretation. XXII. Constitutions—The Merry-Go-Round. XIII. Legal Reasoning. XXIV. Da Capo. XXV. The Anthropological Approach. XXVI. Natural Law. XXVII. The Psychology of Litigants. XXVIII. The Unblindfolding of Justice. XXIX. Classicism and Romanticism. XXX. Justice and Emotions. XXXI. Questioning Some Legal Axioms. XXXII. Reason and Unreason—Ideals.