Law and the Modern Mind
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Law and the Modern Mind
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Law and the Modern Mind is a 1930 book by Jerome Frank which argued that judicial decisions were more influenced by psychological factors than by objective legal premises. Frank, then a legal academic, published the book after having undergone six months of psychoanalysis. In it, he argued against the "basic legal myth" that judges never make law but simply deduce legal conclusions from premises that are clear, certain, and substantially unchanging. Drawing on psychologists such as Sigmund Freud
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_the_Modern_Mind
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2017-03-29T12:24:15Z
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2024-08-29T15:07:24Z
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