Amazon.com description: Product Description: Reprint of 1937 classic. Series of brilliant lectures given on the occasion of the Harvard Tercentenary by the foremost legal scholars of pre-World War II era. Begins with Dean Roscoe Pound's "What is the Common Law?" and proceeds through a lecture on the common law in England by Lord Wright of Dudley, then the Master of the Rolls, and on the common law in America by Justice Harlan Stone. Other contributors include John H. Wigmore, the deans of the law schools at George Washington and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Supreme Court justices from Canada, Ireland, and several US state courts, the head of the American Law Institute and the former head of the ABA.