Philosopher

Roscoe Pound

Overview

Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – July 1, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and was dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Law School and the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century.

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Philosophers who discussed Roscoe Pound

• Hans Kelsen
• Catharine A. MacKinnon
• Lon L. Fuller

Ideas Roscoe Pound discusses

• Freemasonry
• Princeton University Press
• Harvard Law School
• Jurisprudence
• New Deal
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Adolf Hitler
• American Philosophical Society
• Supreme Court of the United States
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Botany
• Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Chiang Kai-shek
• Sociology of law
• Karl Llewellyn

Place in the tradition

Part of Jurisprudence.

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