Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-30
Progress of Roscoe Pound From Nebraska to Harvard

the reports Of the Nebraska state BAR
Association. Another essay on "A New
School OF Jurists' was publiched in Uni
versity studies Of 1904 In 1905 he was
asked by the editors of the Columbia Law
Review to contribute an article. lie did
So and his contribution was a profound
discussion OF the question do we need a
Philosophy OF Law?' This article caused
considerable comment, and the following
year The Green Bag published an address
which he made before the bar association
on The Spirit of the Common Law.
That same year. the reports OF the Amer
lean Bar Association contained his article
on The Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction
with the Administration Of Justice. This
article voiced his conviction Of need for
procedural reform. In 1907 he wrote for
the American Law Register on "ENecu-
tive Justice" The Columbia Law Review
published an article that same year on
spurious Interpretation, this being the
second article by Or. Pound which had
appeared in that publication. The Need
OF Sociological Jurisprudence is the sub
ject of an address which he delivered as
Chairmban of the section on legal oduca-
ton of the American Bar Association.
This was published in the october number
of the Green Bag for 1907. From 1893 to
pO5, Professor Pound did considerable
writing on local practice and Nebraska
law He published outlines of lectures on
jurisprudence in 1903, and the following
year prepared list Of cases on practice
under the code OF civil procedure. His
exercises in conveying under the laws
of Nebraska, which appeared in 1908, were
a great aid to the student OF law intend
ing to practice in a code state. His read
ings on the history and system of the
common law were collected in 1901 His
writings on procedural reform appeared
some years later. ono of these articles
was published by the Green Bag for Au-
gust 1910 under the title of "A Practical
Program Of Procedural Reform. sim
liar article appeared in the Illinois Law
Review that same year.
Such work as Dean Pound did at the law
school of the University of Nebraska,
work which made the law school well and
favorably known throughout the west, was
soon recognized by the trustees of North
western University at Evanston, Ill, and
he received many fine offers from tnat
institution, and he finally accepted pro-
fessorship there in 1907 Soon after going
Law Review, in which capacity he served
for two years. While professor at North
western, DR.. Pound lectured on the law
of contracts, trusts, and quasi-contracts
He continued his work as writer of ar
ticles for the leading legal magazines.
He remained only two years at North
western University, after which time he
was called to the faculty of the law school
Of the University of Chicago. He took up
his work there in 1909, and during that
year lectured on equity, the law evidence,
and criminal law. While at the Univer-
slty Of Chicago, Professor Pound and Pro-
fessor Mechem were the highest paid law
professors in the country. Professor
Pounds work at the University of Chicago
must have been appreciated, for after
he had been elected to the Story Professor
ship in the Harvard Law School, he was
selected as convocation orator at the
seventy-siXth convocation of the school
held in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, at
Chicago in September of 1910. At this time
he gave his lecture on THE Law and the
People. The convocation reception was
held the night before the grafton and In
the receiving line stood Professor and Mrs
Pound, and President and Mrs. Harry
Pratt Judson.
During the time that Dr. Pound was in
and near Chicago he had an opportunity
to observe the workings of the courts OF
a large city, and he made much Of this