The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal March 1926

The result of his work was the abolition of some of the worst foians of injustice and brutality in the criminal law. [...] In so far as it has a philosophy of conduct it assumes the freedom of the will the will having no organic relation to the rest of the personalty nor to the environment. [...] The founders of the Rpublic mindful of the judicial tyrannies under the Tudor and Stuart kings and desirous of protecting the liberties of the accused have thrown about him a net work of legal defenses which make it difficult for the arm of the law to reach him. [...] This up b uilding of personnel Professor Pound insists demands a diffeent attitude towards the problem on the part of the public and especially on the part of the legal profession if the system is to be lifted out of the slough into which it has been allowed to fall. [...] The theory underlying the case history is that of the organic relation of the indvidual to society; and that what we call human nature is the product of original constitution and of its social and natural environment.