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Courts on Trial

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0691027552
ISBN-13 9780691027555
Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 21st, 1973
Print length 456 Pages
Weight 602 grams
Dimensions 14.00 x 21.60 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification: Private / Civil law: general works
Ksh 12,950.00
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Gives insight into the operations of the courts, this work demonstrates the use of 'social sciences' in analyzing a legal problem. It is of interest to the lawyer, anthropologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher.

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 "Fight" Theory versus the "Truth" 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. "Legal Science" and "Legal Engineering." 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.


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