ROSCOE POUND - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 12/13/1930 - HFSID 101511
Price: $320.00
ROSCOE POUND
Handwritten note by the Dean of Harvard Law School
Autograph Note signed: "13 December, 1930/Dear Mr. Cole/It gives
me great/pleasure to comply with your/request./Yours sincerely,/Roscoe Pound",
4¼x3 card. Legal scholar Roscoe Pound (1870-1964), who graduated with
a Botany degree from the University of Nebraska, never attended law school.
Nevertheless, he became Dean of the Nebraska law school in 1903, a law professor
at Harvard in 1910, and Dean of Harvard Law School (1916-1936). During
his strict tenure, Harvard Law School registrations doubled, but one-third of
the students there failed to graduate. Pound was one of the most often cited
legal scholars of the 20th century. Initially, Pound espoused "legal
realism," believing that judges should make decisions with the public
interest in mind. He was highly critical of the "legal formalism" of the US
Supreme Court's majority during the early New Deal. In 1937, however, Pound
broke with President Roosevelt and condemned the "legal realism" he had
previously espoused. Pound remained on the Harvard Law School faculty after
resigning from the deanship. Mounting residue affixed on verso (no show
through). Otherwise, fine condition.
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