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32-522: According to the preamble of the Seminar’s constitution, “Upon completion of a course of lectures by Dr. Salvatore Riccobono at the Catholic University of American during the year 1928-1929, a seminar was organized, of which he was elected Honorary Magister ad vitam” (Magister for life). The CUA invited Riccobono to lecture on Roman law due to the university’s special interest in that subject (it has had

64-641: A School of Canon Law for many years) and because Dr. Riccobono was one of the giants in the field at that time. He was sixty-four in 1928 and “was at the top of an extraordinary career, with about sixty publications to his credit.” Riccobono gave two series of lectures: “Evolution of Roman Law from the Law of the Twelve Tables to Justinian,” and “Influence of Christianity on Roman Law in the IV and V Centuries A.D.” He based his first lecture series on his law review article "Outline of

96-833: A law degree. Following his year at Harvard, he returned to Nebraska where he passed the bar without a law degree. He received the first PhD in botany from the University of Nebraska in 1898. From 1899 to 1907, he taught law on the faculty of the University of Nebraska law school. In 1903, Pound became dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911. That same year, he began teaching at Harvard and in 1916 became dean of Harvard Law School and served in that role until 1937. He wrote "Spurious Interpretation" in 1907, Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence in 1914, The Spirit of

128-449: A significant contribution to jurisprudence in the tradition of sociological jurisprudence , which emphasized the importance of social relationships in the development of law and vice versa. His best-known theory consists of conceptualizing law as social engineering . According to Pound, a lawmaker acts as a social engineer by attempting to solve problems in society using law as a tool. Pound argued that laws must be understood by examining

160-587: Is 16.9%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. In 2016, Business Insider ranked U.S. law schools placing a higher weight on jobs and no weight on selectivity or reputation, ranked UNL College of Law as the 44th best law school in America. The 2024 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings placed Nebraska tied for 89th of

192-700: Is a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools and is accredited by the American Bar Association . For the class entering in 2023, the school accepted 65.90% of applicants, with 19.97% of those accepted enrolling. The average enrollee had a 158 LSAT score and 3.75 undergraduate GPA . According to Nebraska's official 2018 ABA-required disclosures, 87.5% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required (i.e. as attorneys) or JD-advantage employment ten months after graduation. Nebraska's Law School Transparency under-employment score

224-563: The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1915 and delivered a series of Masonic lectures for the Grand Lodge in March and April 1916. He helped found The Harvard Lodge A.F. & A.M. along with Divinity School professor Kirsopp Lake and others. In 1946, Pound helped the 22-year-old Charlie Munger , later a successful businessman and investor, to get into Harvard Law school . Pound was inducted into

256-509: The Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1976. University of Nebraska College of Law The University of Nebraska College of Law is the law school of the University of Nebraska system . It was founded in 1888 and became part of University of Nebraska in 1891. According to Nebraska's official 2017 ABA-required disclosures, 70.3% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. Nebraska Law

288-493: The U.S. Supreme Court 's "liberty of contract" ( freedom of contract ) line of cases, symbolized by Lochner v. New York (1905), and one of the early leaders of the movement for American Legal Realism , which argued for a more pragmatic and public-interested interpretation of law and a focus on how the legal process actually occurred, as opposed to (in his view) the arid legal formalism which prevailed in American jurisprudence at

320-415: The University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and was dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of Northwestern University , the University of Chicago Law School and the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century. Pound

352-530: The "interests" that they serve. These "interests" might be individual interests, such as the protection of an individual's life or property, or broader social interests. In 1903, Pound co-founded the Society of Innocents , the preeminent senior honor society at Nebraska. He was a Freemason and was a member and Past Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 54 AF & AM in Lincoln, Nebraska. He also served as Deputy Grand Master for

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384-622: The 1935-1936 sessions through those of 1938-1939, when the Second World War began, Riccobono offered extensive summaries of the Seminar’s papers and discussions in a special section of the “Bullettino” titled “Il Diritto Romano in America.” These reports ceased in 1940. This gap in coverage of Riccobono Seminar activities was filled by “Seminar,” a special annual edition of “The Jurist,” the CUA’s School of Canon Law journal. “Seminar” continued to publish papers delivered at meetings and to report on

416-478: The 1943-44 academic year, to four in 1949-1950, and to two in 1954-55 and one in 1955-1956. However, in its prime during the decades of the 1930s and 1940s, the Riccobono Seminar admirably fulfilled its constitutional object of disseminating the knowledge of Roman law. Roscoe Pound Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 28, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as dean of

448-639: The Common Law in 1921, Law and Morals in 1924, and Criminal Justice in America in 1930. In 1908 he was part of the founding editorial staff of the first comparative law journal in the United States, the Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association . In 1909, he taught at the University of Chicago Law School . Although it is not often remembered now, Pound

480-835: The Evolution of Roman Law," 74 Penn. Law Rev. 1 (1925.) According to CUA officials, “Because of the splendid impression which Dr. Riccobono’s conduction of this series effected upon his audience, there was a spontaneous movement to insure the continuation of this or similar lectures in future years." A council, or "consilium," of Roman law scholars, organize the Riccobono Seminar to continue the study and teaching of Roman law in America after Riccobono returned to Italy. The consilium consisted of Charles Phineas Sherman, Charles Sumner Lobingier, Frederick de Sloovere, William de Lacy, Francis Lucidi, John J. Coady, Martin R. McGuire, William A. Losieniecke, Francis Bonora, John Vance, W. Winship Wheatley, Peter O. Monlem, and John C. Gunzelman. The first meeting of

512-663: The New Deal years. In 1929 President Herbert Hoover appointed Pound as one of the eleven primary members of the Wickersham Commission on issues relating to law enforcement, criminal activity, police brutality , and Prohibition . During Roosevelt's first term, Pound initially supported the New Deal . In 1937, however, Pound turned against the New Deal and the Legal Realism movement altogether after Roosevelt proposed packing

544-559: The Riccobono Seminar occurred on January 8, 1930 at the Catholic University of America. Roscoe Pound , dean of the Harvard Law School, chaired the session, and Charles S. Lobingier , the Seminar's first chairman (magister) gave his magisterial address "The Continuity of the Roman law." Following this inaugural session, the Seminar appears not to have met again until October of 1930, even though

576-429: The Seminar within reason. It seems hopeless to attempt to finance the Seminar in any other way at present. This is the reason for the alteration of the constitution." Once on a sound financial and institutional footing, the Riccobono Seminar provided a forum in which leading American scholars of Roman law presented and discussed the results of their research. Several noted Roman law scholars from abroad also lectured at

608-586: The Seminar. The list of Riccobono Seminar presenters includes many of the best regarded Roman law scholars and legal historians of the time. Among these were : H. Milton Colvin, Roscoe Dorsey, Charles S. Lobingier and Fritz Schulz (jurist) ; A. Arthur Schiller, Francis de Zulueta , J.B. Thayer, Ernest Levy, and Judge Fred H. Blume . Holding the Seminar in Washington D.C. also meant other notables were sometimes in attendance. The specially invited guests at one meeting included: Justice Pierce Butler (jurist) of

640-588: The United States Supreme Court, Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney, Professors Joseph Beale and Samuel Williston of the Harvard Law School, Professor John Wigmore of the Northwestern Law School, two law school deans, and several other law professors. Dr. Riccobono involved himself with the Seminar for several years. Upon its reconstitution, he reported on its work in the journal “Bullettino dell’Istituto di Diritto Romano,” which he edited. From

672-642: The University of Berlin, presented by the German ambassador to the United States. Pound was among the famous American jurists to express a liking for Adolf Hitler . In the 1940s, Pound was apparently favourably disposed to replacing John P. Higgins as a judge on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East , which was conducting a war crimes trial in Tokyo, though an appointment did not eventuate. He

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704-518: The federal courts and bringing independent agencies into the executive branch . Other factors contributing to this "lurking conservatism" within Pound included bitter battles with liberals on the Harvard law faculty, the death of his wife, and a sharp exchange with Karl Llewellyn . Pound, however, had for years been an outspoken advocate of these court and administrative reforms that Roosevelt proposed and it

736-407: The group's intention was to meet monthly during the academic year. In the next several years, the Riccobono Seminar reconvened sporadically at various District of Columbia law schools approximately twenty times. The Seminar’s initial difficulties were caused by a lack of funding. During the 1934-35 academic year, the Seminar's charter members recognized that they needed to reorganize if the institution

768-509: The group’s activities until 1955-1956. The Riccobono Seminar itself seems to have stopped functioning in 1956-57. As the “Seminar” noted, many outlets for articles on Roman law, legal history and comparative law had arisen since the war, making the “Seminar” unnecessary. There also had been a gradual decline in the Riccobono Seminar’s activities over the years. The annual number of papers delivered at monthly meetings dropped from eight in

800-427: The month, the total amount of space given over to crime was 925in., but in the second half, it leapt to 6642in. This was despite the fact that the number of crimes reported had increased only from 345 to 363. They concluded that although the city's much publicized "crime wave" was largely fictitious and manufactured by the press, the coverage had a very real consequence for the administration of criminal justice. Because

832-445: The public believed they were in the middle of a crime epidemic, they demanded an immediate response from the police and the city authorities. The agencies, wishing to retain public support, complied, caring "more to satisfy popular demand than to be observant of the tried process of law." The result was a greatly increased likelihood of miscarriages of justice and sentences more severe than the offenses warranted. Roscoe Pound also made

864-419: The time. According to Pound, these jurisprudential movements advocated "the adjustment of principles and doctrines to the human conditions they are to govern rather than to assumed first principles." While Pound was dean, law school registration almost doubled, but his standards were so rigorous that one-third of those matriculated did not receive degrees. Among these were many of the great political innovators of

896-415: Was a Roman law scholar. He taught that subject at Nebraska, Northwestern and Harvard. Pound was sufficiently adept at Latin to translate Roman law into English for a sourcebook he used for those classes, and he was said by Professor Joseph Henry Beale to have "brought the spirit of Roman law to Harvard." Pound was also the founder of the movement for " sociological jurisprudence ," an influential critic of

928-483: Was acknowledged that he only became conservative because he saw an opportunity to gain attention after his Harvard colleagues had turned on his ideas of government reform after Roosevelt had proposed them. In 1937 Pound resigned as Dean of Harvard Law School to become a University Professor and soon became a leading critic of the legal realists. He proposed his ideas of government reform to Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek . In 1934 Pound received an honorary degree from

960-536: Was born in Lincoln, Nebraska , to Stephen Bosworth Pound and Laura Pound. His sister was the noted linguist and folklorist, Louise Pound . Pound studied botany at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where he became a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity . He received his bachelor's degree in 1888 and his master's degree in 1889. In 1889 he began the study of law; he spent one year at Harvard but never received

992-536: Was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1940. He joined the faculty of UCLA School of Law in 1949, the year the law school opened, and remained on the faculty until 1952. In 1922 Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter undertook a detailed quantitative study of crime reporting in Cleveland newspapers for the month of January 1919, using column inch counts. They found that in the first half of

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1024-558: Was to survive. Therefore, they drafted a new constitution which was approved by the Council in February of 1935. In a letter announcing the new constitution, the Scribe of the Seminar wrote: “The new constitution calls for a change of policy whereby more control will be vested in the Catholic University of America. In consideration of this, the administration of the University will be willing to finance

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