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... > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > key people in law and society > Roscoe Pound

... > political science > law and courts > law and society > key people in law and society > Roscoe Pound

... > political science > ideologies > libertarianism > key people in libertarianism > Roscoe Pound

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Roscoe Pound

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Roscoe Pound was the long-time dean of Harvard Law School (1916–1936), who brought an important movement in law called sociological jurisprudence to America. In a speech he delivered before the American Bar Association in 1906, Pound called for the reform and modernization of legal formalism, a doctrine he regarded as antiquated.Pound learned German in his youth, earned a PhD in botany that involved reading the work of German scientists, and studied Roman law. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Pound, Roscoe (1870–1964)]

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