biography
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| (1870–1964)
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| biography:
| Legal scholar and botanist, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Considered one of the nation's leading jurists outside the Supreme Court, he taught for many years at the University of Nebraska (1892–1903), at Northwestern (1907–9), at the University of Chicago (1909–10), and then at Harvard Law School (1910–47). During his early career as a botanist, he discovered a rare lichen thereafter named Roscopoundia. He advanced the idea of sociological jurisprudence, and his ‘theory of social interests’ influenced several New Deal programmes. The theory took actual societal conditions into account rather than maintaining strict adherence to legal codes. However, he later felt that many New Deal programmes were grossly mismanaged and thus promoted a welfare or ‘service state’. He set forth these misgivings in Justice According to Law (1951). Gifted with boundless energy and an encyclopedic memory, he wrote many books including Readings on the History and System of the Common Law (1904), Law and Morals (1924), and Jurisprudence (5 vols, 1959). |
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