Roscoe Pound
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Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964) born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Botanist, lawyer law professor, theorist, dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law, dean of Harvard University Law School and was a distinguished legal scholar and educator. He wrote 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.