The Ideal Element in Law

by Roscoe Pound

Book Overview

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because he believed the administration of justice had lost its grounding and recourse to enduring ideals.

Now published in the U.S. for the first time, Pound's lectures are collected in Liberty Fund's The Ideal Element in Law,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865973261
• ISBN13: 9780865973268
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5