He was influenced by the theories of sociological Jurisprudence presented by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard.

Roscoe Pound personally picked Professor Lambert in 1955 to succeed him as editor in chief of the organization's law journal and its other publications.

At Harvard, he studied under Roscoe Pound and also did research for Sheldon Glueck, who at that time was writing a book on war crimes.

In positive terms, Roscoe Pound tried at an early stage to provide a concise, if rather general, statement of what realism stood for:

The Association is, as Roscoe Pound once said of the legal profession itself, characterized by a "spirit of public service."

He also came to the attention of Roscoe Pound, Harvard University's legal scholar, before finishing law school at 21.

Foreword by Roscoe Pound.

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, founder of the movement for "sociological jurisprudence"

Roscoe Pound said: "Dissatisfaction with the administration of justice is as old as the law".

Roscoe Pound subscribed to six landmarks: