ABSTRACT
Public administration steadily developed through the twentieth century, until by the 1970s its reach had encompassed the area of judicial administration among others. Conscious judicial administration arrived when famed legal scholar Roscoe Pound did for it what Wilson had done for public administration. Pound continued to excoriate the condition of the nation’s courts during his long legal career, he also rendered another notable service, a delineation of a new specialty: judicial administration. His work in this area requires at least passing attention because it clearly foreshadowed what became the five great issues in this field: congestion and delay, unification, professionalization, education and training, and technology. The revulsion of Pound and later judicial reformers to congestion and delay has been epitomized in an oft-repeated slogan: “Justice delayed is justice denied.” Pound favored a quasi-Weberian bureaucratization of state and federal court systems.
