Böcker av Roscoe Pound

...we have four systems of Masonic philosophy. Two are intellectual systems: First that of Preston, whose key word is Knowledge; second, that of Krause, whose key word is Morals. Two are spiritual systems: First that of Oliver, whose key word is Tradition; and second, that of Pike, whose key word is Symbolism...

A celebration of the common law and a warning for common law judges and lawyers to return to and embrace the pragmatism and judicial empiricism that define and energise the common law. Pound writes that the two fundamental doctrines of common law are the doctrine of precedents and the doctrine of supremacy of law.

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.