Nathan Roscoe Pound lived from 1870 to 1964 and was an American legal scholar and educator who served as dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and as dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He later taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Law School and, from 1949 to 1952, the UCLA School of Law in its early years. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the twentieth century.
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What was Roscoe Pound's part in sociological jurisprudence and legal realism?
He founded sociological jurisprudence and was an early leader of American Legal Realism before turning against the realists.
Roscoe Pound is described as the founder of the movement for sociological jurisprudence, which held that principles and doctrines should be adjusted to the human conditions they are to govern rather than to assumed first principles. He was an influential critic of the line of United States Supreme Court cases on liberty of contract, symbolized by Lochner v. New York, and one of the early leaders of the movement for American Legal Realism. After Franklin Roosevelt proposed packing the federal courts in 1937, Pound turned against the New Deal and soon became a leading critic of the legal realists.
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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – July 1, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator.
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In 1908 he was part of the founding editorial staff of the first comparative law journal in the United States, the Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association.
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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 - July 1, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator.
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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 - July 1, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator.
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P569 (date of birth): 1870-10-27
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P570 (date of death): 1964-07-01
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P19 (place of birth): Lincoln
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