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Roscoe Pound

1870 - 1964

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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 28, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as dean of 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roscoe Pound has received more than 344,751 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Roscoe Pound is the 95th most popular lawyer, the 10,785th most popular biography from United States and the 25th most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 50.32

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Roscoe Pound ranks 95 out of 136. Before him are Aisha Rateb, Karim Ahmad Khan, Alberto Nisman, Felix Frankfurter, John Dean, and Richard Wagner. After him are Benjamin N. Cardozo, Irene Khan, Hauwa Ibrahim, Fatimata M'Baye, Finn Tveter, and Robert Treat Paine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Roscoe Pound ranks 163. Before him are Walter Chaffe, Hubert Gough, Antonín Slavíček, Liberato Marcial Rojas, William Glackens, and Erskine Childers. After him are Benjamin N. Cardozo, Alexander Munro, Philip Herbert Cowell, and C. B. K. Beachcroft. Among people deceased in 1964, Roscoe Pound ranks 203. Before him are Gracie Allen, Branislav Hrnjiček, C. I. Lewis, Hedwig Kohn, Frank Albertson, and Norman Z. McLeod. After him are Fred Tootell, Kate Gillou, Josef Šroubek, Alice Wilson, Robert Warwick, and János Urányi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roscoe Pound ranks 10,785 out of 20,380. Before him are Alden Sanborn (1899), Tracy Letts (1965), May Allison (1890), Barbara Barrie (1931), Harry Chapin (1942), and Giorgos Kaminis (1954). After him are Katie Cassidy (1986), Adolphus Greely (1844), Pua Kealoha (1902), Charles Avery (1873), Lawrence Venuti (1953), and Martha Raye (1916).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Roscoe Pound ranks 25. Before him are Ken Starr (1946), Doug Emhoff (1964), G. Gordon Liddy (1930), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959), Christopher A. Wray (1966), and John Dean (1938). After him are Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870), Robert Treat Paine (1731), Judy Sheindlin (1942), Robert Lighthizer (1947), Belva Ann Lockwood (1830), and Griffin Bell (1918).

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