Sociological School — Law as Social Engineering — KSLU Jurisprudence Notes :: Medha Academy

Roscoe Pound treated law as a working institution to be judged by results: the task of the jurist is “social engineering” — maximising the satisfaction of competing interests (individual, public and social) with the least friction and waste. The lawyer must study the law in action, not only the law in the books. Ihering (law as the protection of interests, secured by State coercion) and Duguit (law founded on social solidarity) built the same bridge between law and society. Indian echoes: public interest litigation and Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan (1997), where the court engineered protection the legislature had not yet supplied.