Roscoe Pound (1870–1964)

I picked this book up because it was my Dad's. I know he must have read it around 1929 from the inscription in the front...he would have been 23 and studying law then. At the time it was currant. Reading now gives me perspective for the thinking then, what might have shaped his career and thoughts. I'm not particularly interested in law per se but the historical slant does interest me and any book that has quotes like this: "Coke's observation that many things have been introduced into the common law because of "convenience" and his proposition that the law will suffer a private mischief, i.e. a curtailment of individual right, rather than an "inconvenience," remained profoundly true." are worth my time. Plus, it's beautiful raw cut pages smell of old book and pipe smoke...which takes me back to visiting my Dad's law office when I was a kid.… (mehr)