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'Roscoe Pound' (1870 - 1964) was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator.
Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA to Stephen Bosworth Pound and Laura Pound.
Pound studied botany at the University of Nebraska (BA, 1888, & MA, 1889) in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1889, he began the study of law; he spent one year at Harvard but never received a law degree. He received the first PhD, in botany, from the University of Nebraska in 1898.
In 1903, Pound became dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law. Also in 1903 Pound, with George Condra, founded the Society of Innocents, the preeminent senior honor society at Nebraska. It is still in existence. In 1910, Pound began teaching at Harvard and in 1916 became dean of Harvard Law School. He wrote "Spurious Interpretation" in 1907,''Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence'' in 1914, ''The Spirit of the Common Law'' in 1921, ''Law and Morals'' in 1924, and ''Criminal Justice in America'' in 1930. He was the founder of the movement for "sociological jurisprudence," an influential critic of the Supreme Court's "liberty of contract" line of cases, symbolized by ''Lochner v. New York'' (1905), and one of the early leaders of the movement for American Legal Realism, which argued for a more pragmatic and public-interested interpretation of law and a focus on how the legal process actually occurred, as opposed to the arid legal formalism which prevailed in American jurisprudence at the time. Pound would later turn against the movement and became a leading critic of the legal realists later in his life.
Pound was a brother of Louise Pound, who was also a distinguished educator and author.
In 1922, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter undertook a detailed quantitative study of crime reporting in Cleveland newspapers for the month of January 1919, using column inch counts. They found that, whereas, in the first half of the month, the total amount of space given over to crime was 925 inches, in the second half if leapt to 6642 inches. This was in spite the fact that the number of crimes reported had only increased from 345 to 363. They concluded that although the city's much publicized "crime wave" was largely fictitious and manufactured by the press, the coverage had a very real consequence for the administration of criminal justice. Because the public believed they were in the middle of a crime epidemic, they demanded an immediate response from the police and the city authorities. These agencies wishing to retain public support, complied, caring "more to satisfy popular demand than to be observant of the tried process of law" The result was a greatly increased likelihood of miscarriages of justice and sentences more severe than the offenses warranted. A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies, , Klaus Bruhn, Jensen, Routledge, May 10, 2002, ISBN 0-415-22588-4 p. 45-46 Criminal Justice in Cleveland, , Roscoe, Pound, The Cleveland Foundation, 1922, p. 546
One of his most oft-quoted views was on professionalism:
The term [professionalism] refers to a group pursuing a learned art as a common calling in the spirit of public service - no less a public service because it may incidentally be a means of livelihood. Pursuit of the learned art in the spirit of a public service is the primary purpose.
The Lawyer from Antiquity to Modern Times, , Roscoe, Pound, West Publishing Co.,, 1953, p. 5.
★ Pound is a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
★ Pound was a Freemason, and was a member and Past Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 54 AF & AM Lincoln, Nebraska.
★ Pound helped to found The Harvard Lodge A.F. & A.M. along with Kirsopp Lake a Professor of the Divinity School, and others.
★ A Test of the News
★ Pound, Roscoe. ''American National Biography''. 17:760-763. 1999.
★ Roscoe Pound papers at Nebraska State Historical Society
| Contents |
| Early life |
| Law career |
| Criminal Justice in Cleveland |
| Quotes |
| Miscellaneous |
| See also |
| Notes |
| References |
| External links |
Early life
Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA to Stephen Bosworth Pound and Laura Pound.
Pound studied botany at the University of Nebraska (BA, 1888, & MA, 1889) in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1889, he began the study of law; he spent one year at Harvard but never received a law degree. He received the first PhD, in botany, from the University of Nebraska in 1898.
Law career
In 1903, Pound became dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law. Also in 1903 Pound, with George Condra, founded the Society of Innocents, the preeminent senior honor society at Nebraska. It is still in existence. In 1910, Pound began teaching at Harvard and in 1916 became dean of Harvard Law School. He wrote "Spurious Interpretation" in 1907,''Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence'' in 1914, ''The Spirit of the Common Law'' in 1921, ''Law and Morals'' in 1924, and ''Criminal Justice in America'' in 1930. He was the founder of the movement for "sociological jurisprudence," an influential critic of the Supreme Court's "liberty of contract" line of cases, symbolized by ''Lochner v. New York'' (1905), and one of the early leaders of the movement for American Legal Realism, which argued for a more pragmatic and public-interested interpretation of law and a focus on how the legal process actually occurred, as opposed to the arid legal formalism which prevailed in American jurisprudence at the time. Pound would later turn against the movement and became a leading critic of the legal realists later in his life.
Pound was a brother of Louise Pound, who was also a distinguished educator and author.
Criminal Justice in Cleveland
In 1922, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter undertook a detailed quantitative study of crime reporting in Cleveland newspapers for the month of January 1919, using column inch counts. They found that, whereas, in the first half of the month, the total amount of space given over to crime was 925 inches, in the second half if leapt to 6642 inches. This was in spite the fact that the number of crimes reported had only increased from 345 to 363. They concluded that although the city's much publicized "crime wave" was largely fictitious and manufactured by the press, the coverage had a very real consequence for the administration of criminal justice. Because the public believed they were in the middle of a crime epidemic, they demanded an immediate response from the police and the city authorities. These agencies wishing to retain public support, complied, caring "more to satisfy popular demand than to be observant of the tried process of law" The result was a greatly increased likelihood of miscarriages of justice and sentences more severe than the offenses warranted. A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies, , Klaus Bruhn, Jensen, Routledge, May 10, 2002, ISBN 0-415-22588-4 p. 45-46 Criminal Justice in Cleveland, , Roscoe, Pound, The Cleveland Foundation, 1922, p. 546
Quotes
One of his most oft-quoted views was on professionalism:
The term [professionalism] refers to a group pursuing a learned art as a common calling in the spirit of public service - no less a public service because it may incidentally be a means of livelihood. Pursuit of the learned art in the spirit of a public service is the primary purpose.
The Lawyer from Antiquity to Modern Times, , Roscoe, Pound, West Publishing Co.,, 1953, p. 5.
Miscellaneous
★ Pound is a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
★ Pound was a Freemason, and was a member and Past Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 54 AF & AM Lincoln, Nebraska.
★ Pound helped to found The Harvard Lodge A.F. & A.M. along with Kirsopp Lake a Professor of the Divinity School, and others.
See also
★ A Test of the News
Notes
References
★ Pound, Roscoe. ''American National Biography''. 17:760-763. 1999.
External links
★ Roscoe Pound papers at Nebraska State Historical Society
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