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Roscoe Pound

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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator. [1]

48 relations: American Bar Association, Annual Bulletin (Comparative Law Bureau), Botany, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cato Institute, Chi Phi, Chiang Kai-shek, Comparative law, Dean of Harvard Law School, Doctor of Philosophy, Ezra Ripley Thayer, Felix Frankfurter, Freedom of contract, Freemasonry, Harvard Law School, Herbert Hoover, International Military Tribunal for the Far East, James M. Landis, John Patrick Higgins, Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, Jurisprudence, Karl Llewellyn, Kirsopp Lake, Law, Legal formalism, Legal realism, Lincoln, Nebraska, Lochner v. New York, Louis Brandeis, Nebraska Hall of Fame, Nebraska State Historical Society, New Deal, Police brutality, Prohibition in the United States, Reason (magazine), Reorganization Act of 1939, SAGE Publications, Social engineering (political science), Society of Innocents, Sociology of law, Stephen Bosworth Pound, Supreme Court of the United States, The Journal of Legal Studies, UCLA School of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Wickersham Commission, Zechariah Chafee.

American Bar Association

The American Bar Association (ABA), founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.

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Annual Bulletin (Comparative Law Bureau)

The Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association (ABA) was a U.S. specialty law journal (1908–1914, 1933).

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.

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Chi Phi

Chi Phi (ΧΦ) is an American men's College Social Fraternity that was established as the result of the merger of three separate organizations that were each known as Chi Phi.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi and known as Chiang Chungcheng, was a political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in exile in Taiwan.

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Comparative law

Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries.

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Dean of Harvard Law School

The Dean of Harvard Law School is the head of Harvard Law School.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Ezra Ripley Thayer

Ezra Ripley Thayer (February 21, 1866 – September 14, 1915) was an attorney, Dane Professor of Law, and Dean of the Harvard Law School from 1910–1915.

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Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Freedom of contract

Freedom of contract is the freedom of private or public individuals and groups (of any legal entity) to form nonviolent contracts without government restrictions.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.

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International Military Tribunal for the Far East

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for joint conspiracy to start and wage war (categorized as "Class A" crimes), conventional war crimes ("Class B") and crimes against humanity ("Class C").

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James M. Landis

James McCauley Landis (September 25, 1899 – July 30, 1964) was an American academic, government official and legal adviser.

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John Patrick Higgins

John Patrick Higgins (19 February 1893 – 2 August 1955) was an officer in the United States Navy, chemist, attorney, and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

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Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (frequently called the "court-packing plan")Epstein, at 451.

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Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence or legal theory is the theoretical study of law, principally by philosophers but, from the twentieth century, also by social scientists.

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Karl Llewellyn

Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (May 22, 1893 – February 13, 1962) was a prominent American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism.

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Kirsopp Lake

Kirsopp Lake (7 April 187210 November 1946) was a New Testament scholar and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School.

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Law

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.

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Legal formalism

Legal formalism is both a positive or descriptive theory of adjudication and a normative theory of how judges ought to decide cases.

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Legal realism

Legal realism is a naturalistic approach to law, and is the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence.

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Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln is the capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County.

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Lochner v. New York

Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was a landmark U.S. labor law case in the US Supreme Court, holding that limits to working time violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Nebraska Hall of Fame

The Nebraska Hall of Fame officially recognizes prominent individuals from the State of Nebraska.

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Nebraska State Historical Society

History Nebraska, formally the Nebraska State Historical Society is a Nebraska state agency, founded in 1878 to "encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information...

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.

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Police brutality

Police brutality is one of several forms of police misconduct which involves undue violence by police members.

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Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

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Reorganization Act of 1939

The Reorganization Act of 1939,, codified at, is an American Act of Congress which gave the President of the United States the authority to hire additional confidential staff and reorganize the executive branch (within certain limits) for two years subject to legislative veto.

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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.

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Social engineering (political science)

Social engineering is a discipline in social science that refers to efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, whether by governments, media or private groups in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.

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Society of Innocents

The Innocents Society is the Chancellor's senior honorary society at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, composed of 13 men and women who apply during the spring of their junior year and are selected on the basis of academic excellence, unparalleled leadership, and selfless service to the University and community.

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Sociology of law

The sociology of law (or legal sociology) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies.

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Stephen Bosworth Pound

Stephen B. Pound (January 14, 1833 – May 14, 1911) was a pioneer lawyer, senator and judge in Nebraska, USA.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The Journal of Legal Studies

The Journal of Legal Studies is a law journal published by the University of Chicago Press focusing on interdisciplinary academic research in law and legal institutions.

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UCLA School of Law

The University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, also referred to as UCLA School of Law and UCLA Law, is the law school of UCLA, located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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University of Nebraska College of Law

The University of Nebraska College of Law, colloquially known as the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law (UNLCL), is one of the professional graduate schools of University of Nebraska system.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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Wickersham Commission

The National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (also known unofficially as the Wickersham Commission) was a committee established by then U.S. President, Herbert Hoover, on May 20, 1929.

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Zechariah Chafee

Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7, 1885 – February 8, 1957), was an American professor of law, judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Pound

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