Bøker av Roscoe Pound

Originally published in 1923, this book presents a critical history of various aspects of juristic thought as it developed in England and other countries. The text was based upon a series of lectures delivered by Pound at Trinity College, Cambridge by the American legal scholar and jurist Nathan Roscoe Pound (1870-1964).

Pound recognises the dangers law faces when it does not keep pace with societal change. He points out that one aspect of the justice problem is a rigid mechanical approach that resists change, and the other dimension of the problem is that change, when it comes, results from the pressure of public opinion, which is not motivated by justice.