Law in Contemporary Society

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Summary of Discourse on “Courts on Trial” (Jerome Frank)
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vi. Frank believes that “future possibilities…can be realized only by tearing the mask and the thing masked asunder.” The first step to reform is acknowledging the inherently subject nature of judicial decision-making and beginning to base the legitimacy of a court’s murder conviction, for example, on the more grounded idea that it is the best the court could do give its limitations.

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vii. In practicing law, Frank recommends that we “try to ascertain what social changes must be made, if that [end] is to be actualized” (220). When we run up against a problem that is unsolvable, we must turn to more product endeavors, but realize that our broken theory may have produced imperfect means that may be incorporated into our art of legal practice.

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