Roscoe Pound and Sociological Jurisprudence
... also became the Dean of Nebraska College of Law in 1903. In 1907, in St. Paul he gave his speech on sociological jurisprudence. This speech was about the concepts of judicial administration and earned Pound a chance to become a professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law in 1907. Pound also became the Dean of Law at Harvard from 1916 until 1936. Pound also wrote many books during his great lifetime. He wrote such books as The Spirit of the Common Law in 1921 and the book Law and Morals in 1924. He published many other books during his life, including his great five-volume Jurisprudence in 1959. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 1, 1964 at the age of 93. Sociological Jurisprudence Sociological jurisprudence is a concept that was first introduced by Roscoe Pound in 1907. From the sociological aspect of jurisprudence, the questions that are to be answered are concerned with the actual effects of the law upon the attitudes and behaviors complex to law in the maintenance of a particular society. It focuses on what goes on and happens rather then focusing on what should happen. Sociological Jurisprudence hits on a few key points that Pound said to be of importance. Pound states that law should be a means and not an end. This means that in order to maintain order in society that after the law has been enforced and people carry out their sentences that they have to want to behave and abide by the laws that society has set forth for them. After law some people may just go back on the streets and continue to caus...