Jerome Frank

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Jerome Frank (1939)

Jerome Frank (born September 10, 1889 in New York City , † January 13, 1957 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American legal philosopher and judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit under President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

Life

Frank received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1909 and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1912. He then worked as a lawyer in his own law firm, in Chicago from 1912 to 1930 and from 1930 to 1933 in New York City .

During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy , Frank worked from 1933 to 1935 as general advisor to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration , until he and young left-wing lawyers had to give way to a political cleansing operation in his office that Roosevelt approved, but Frank until 1935 Transferred as Special Advisor to the Reconstruction Finance Association . In 1937, President Roosevelt named Frank Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission . Frank served as chairman of the SEC from 1937 to 1941, including chairman from 1939 to 1941.

In February 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frank a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit . The appointment was confirmed by the Senate in March 1941. Frank was seen as a highly competent judge who was often credited with advocating liberal positions on civil rights matters. He was active in this position until his death in 1957.

Frank's personal and legal records are archived at Yale University and most of them are accessible to researchers. Frank died of a heart attack in New Haven in 1957 .

plant

Frank has published many influential books including Law and the Modern Mind (1930), which for Legal Realism fights ( 'legal realism') and emphasizes the psychological forces in legal matters. His other major work Courts on Trial (1949) emphasized the uncertainties and fallibility of the legal process.

Fonts

  • Law and the modern mind. Brentano’s , New York 1930.
  • Fate and freedom. A philosophy for free Americans. Simon and Schuster, New York 1945.
  • Courts on trial; myth and reality in American justice. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1949.
  • Not guilty. Doubleday, Garden City, New York 1957.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neil Duxbury 1991, at p.176.
  2. ^ Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Coming of the New Deal (1958) ch 5
  3. ↑ Profile of Jerome Frank ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Judicial Center website.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fjc.gov
  4. ↑ MILESTONES , Time.com .
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American legal philosopher and federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1957
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut