1st Edition

The Spirit of the Common Law

By Roscoe Pound Copyright 1999
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The Spirit of the Common Law is one of Roscoe Pound's most notable works. It contains the brilliant lectures he delivered at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1921. It is a seminal book embodying the spiritual essence of sociological jurisprudence by its leading prophet. This work is both a celebration of the common law and a warning for common law judges and lawyers to return to and embrace the... Read more
I: The Spirit of the Common Law: The Feudal Element; II: Puritanism and the Law; III: The Courts and the Crown; IV: The Rights of Englishmen and the Rights of Man; V: The Pioneers and the Law; IV: The Philosophy of Law in the Nineteenth Century; VII: Judicial Empiricism; VIII: Legal Reason

Biography

Roscoe Pound