Roscoe Pound
- Jurist
- Roscoe Pound
- School
- Sociological Jurisprudence (Social Engineering)
- Father of
- Sociological Jurisprudence (American)
- Theory
- Sociological Jurisprudence; Theory of Social Engineering — law as a means of balancing competing interests; classification of interests into Individual, Public and Social.
- Quote
Law is social engineering.
- Books
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (1922), Jurisprudence (5 vols, 1959), Social Control through Law (1942), The Spirit of the Common Law
- Propounded
Theory of Social Engineering - law balancing competing interests; classification of interests into Individual, Public and Social
- Definition of law
The science of laws, using the term law in the juridical sense, as denoting the body of principles recognized or enforced by public and regular tribunals in the administration of justice
- Born
- 1870
- Died
- 1964
- Portrait
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