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  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • About the Institute
    • Who is Roscoe Pound?
    • Leadership
    • Pound Fellows
      • Current Fellows
      • Become a Pound Fellow
      • Pay Your Member Dues
    • Academic Fellows
    • Helpful Links
  • What We Do
    • Judges Forum
      • 2020 Judges Forum
      • Feedback From Judges
      • Judges Forum Reports
      • Make a Forum Donation
    • Academic Symposium
      • 2019 Academic Symposium
      • Symposia Law Reviews
      • Contribute to a Symposium
    • Awards
      • Appellate Advocacy Award
      • Civil Justice Scholarship Award
    • Howard F. Twiggs Lecture
    • Papers of the Pound Institute
      • Order Hard Copies
      • Complete List of Pound Publications
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  • What’s New
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Outreach to America’s Judiciary and Scholars

Our programs provide opportunities for open dialogue among judges, legal academics, policy makers, and attorneys on issues vital to civil justice. Resulting research is published and utilized throughout the legal community.
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Champions of the Civil Justice System

Our members – called Fellows – advance the work of the Institute by participating in and supporting Pound’s programs. All members of the bar in good standing who support a strong civil justice system are invited to become Pound Fellows.
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Fulfilling Roscoe Pound’s Legacy

We are a national legal think tank created by trial attorneys in 1956 to honor the life and work of Roscoe Pound, one of America’s great legal scholars and educators. Our programs and publications give a balanced view of issues affecting the U.S. civil justice system.
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2021 Judges Forum.
JUDGES: Register your interest in attending the 2021 Judges Forum on July 17.
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Report of Pound’s 2020 Judges Forum is Released.
This 145-page report of our July Judges Forum contains academic papers, commentary by legal experts on confidentiality in litigation. Now available for free download.
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2021 Civil Justice Scholarship Award winners announced.
Professors Sandra Sperino, Suja Thomas, and Mark Wojcik are honored as the 2021 Award recipients.
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2020 Judges Forum: Paper presentations and panel discussions are now available from the Institute’s 28th annual Forum on “Dangerous Secrets: Confronting Confidentiality in Our Public Courts.” The first ever webcast Forum was held on July 11, 2020…
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Who We Are

The Pound Civil Justice Institute is a national legal think tank that offers an informed, balanced view of issues affecting the U.S. civil justice system. Whether you’re a lawyer, judge, or legal educator, the Institute offers activities and a highly regarded Judges Forum dedicated to ensuring access to civil justice for all citizens. We are a non-profit organization that is sustained by member dues, charitable donations, and grants.

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Who Is Roscoe Pound?

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Judges Forum

Pound’s annual Forum for State Appellate Court Judges is the plaintiffs’ bar’s most significant outreach to America’s judges. The one-day Forum showcases our unique ability to bring together judges, legal scholars, and practicing attorneys, and provide an opportunity to engage in an open dialog about major issues affecting civil justice in America.

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2021 Judges Forum – Juries, Voir Dire, Batson, and Beyond: Achieving Fairness in Civil Jury Trials
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Academic Symposium

Periodically, the Pound Institute partners with the nation’s top law schools to sponsor new research to support the civil justice system. The resulting academic papers, published in the cosponsoring school’s Law Review, are distributed broadly and cited in research, briefs, and court decisions.

Academic Symposium
Law Reviews
2019 Symposium: Class Actions and
MDLs — The Next 50 Years
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Howard F. Twiggs Lecture

The annual Howard F. Twiggs Lecture on Legal Professionalism honors the memory of Howard Twiggs, a central figure in the Pound Institute for more than two decades. To continue his work of advocacy, mentoring, and teaching, we bring some of the brightest legal minds to venues across the country to consider today’s most relevant topics in legal ethics.
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Papers of the Pound Institute

Pound’s vigorous publication program, known as the Papers of the Pound Civil Justice Institute, serves to provide a resource for the legal, academic, and judicial communities, and to contribute to the body of research on the American civil justice system.
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