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Roscoe Pound and Georges Gurvitch have treated each other with respect and high esteem. For Gurvitch Pound is un „undisputed leader" of American sociological jurisprudence. Pound praises Gurvitch as a „respectable representative of modern sociology of law". Pound wrote the preface to the American edition of Gurvitch's Sociology of Law (1942). In this edition Gurvtch dedicated almost a halh of historical review of sociology of law to the American sociological jurisprudence and the legal realism. But in the German edition (1960) there are nothing about sociological jurisprudence. According to newer criticism Pound's influence grows weaker and loses importance, while the reputation of Llewellyn's legal realism rises. In spite of its exeptional importance, Gurvitch's ideas have not had a significant influence on the development of the sociology of law. His neglected contributions maybe vill be reafirmed in the future as more critical, pluralistic and democratic perspective of the dogmatic concept of law and new enourms role of the state in the issue of coming economic crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]