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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 spending one year at Harvard, and completed his law degree at Northwestern University School Of Law . He returned to Nebraska to practice law and continue his study of botany. He received a 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 '' 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. One of his most oft-quoted views was on professionalism: The term {Link without Title} 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. Roscoe Pound, The Lawyer from Antiquity to Modern Times (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1953) p. 5. Pound is a member of the Nebraska Hall Of Fame . REFERENCES
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