For years, each morning at 5:00 a.m., deep in the bowels of Langdell Hall, one could find Harvard's eighty year-old former Dean, Roscoe Pound, wearing his visor and working on his five-volume treatise on jurisprudence. Pound believed that the law lost its connection with timeless values, and became something to be used for the achievement of disparate social goals rather than an end in itself." Pound's big contribution to legal scholarship was in the realm of sociological jurisprudence. This in turn had a profound impact on criminal law. This paper explores how Roscoe Pound, former Dean of Harvard and legal scholar, influenced criminal law today.
