Social control through law.

Door: Pound, Roscoe.

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• Uitgever: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1942. First edition. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. [viii],138 pp. Owner's stamp on title-page. Dustjacket with a few tears (repaired) & rubbings. Conditie: goed
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• Extra informatie: From the publisher : Roscoe Pound, former Dean of the Harvard Law School (and also dean of a generation of American lawyers), writes in these chapters of what law has been, what it is, and what it may become. There have been in human history many views of law and of justice and its rules. Dean Pound quotes the Salic law "that if anyone shall have called another 'fox' he shall be condemned to three shillings'; he recalls the hypothetical Irish jury that asked a judge "whether a man who had a spot in his skull where it was no thicker than an eggshell did not have a right to get killed if he went to the pigfair"; and in an urbane and erudite fashion he also analyzes the main philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists of legal theory. The chief task of law, he believes, is "to maintain, further, and transmit civilization," and this is a masterly defense of that high purpose. This book is based on the Mahlon Powell Lectures which Dean Pound gave at the University of Indiana in May, 1941.
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