The Jerome N. Frank
Institute for Independent Inquiry

Empirical Research · Institutional Accountability · Access to Justice

Sworn in as Federal Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
May 5, 1941

The Jerome N. Frank Institute for Independent Inquiry is a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to the empirical study of judicial administration, court accountability, and systemic barriers to equal justice. Modeled upon the investigative rigor championed by Judge Frank himself — whose dissents illuminated the distance between law as written and law as lived — the Institute applies the methods of social science to the institutions of justice. Our inaugural initiative, the National Foreclosure Research Project, examines case assignment patterns in state foreclosure courts across the United States.