Taken together, their work demonstrates how empirically informed conceptions of human nature can enhance our understanding of how law is made and how it should be made, of what law is and what it should be. Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Particularly in the area of jury research, there is excellent legal scholarship incorporating the methods of psychology. The law is a near substitute for that father, a belief in whose infallibility is essential to the very life of the child. Id. , reprinted in American Legal Realism, supra , at 210-11.
Modern civilization demands a mind free of father-governance.
To remain father-governed in adult years is peculiarly the modern sin. . . . And law, if it is to meet the needs of modern civilization must adapt itself to the modern mind. It must cease to embody a philosophy opposed to change. It must become avowedly pragmatic. . . . Until we become thoroughly cognizant of, and cease to be controlled by, the image of the father hidden away in the authority of the law, we shall not reach that first step in the civilized administration of justice, the recognition that man is not made for the law, but that the law is made by and for men.