The "Pound Conference" was named after the American legal scholar Roscoe Pound, who presented an address at the annual convention of the American Bar Association in 1906 entitled, The Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice. The lecture was a call to improve court administration.
Formally known as the National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice, the Pound Conference took place April 7-9, 1976 in Minneapolis, Minn. The event was a meeting of some 200 judges, legal scholars, and leaders of the bar who had gathered to discuss ways to address dissatisfaction with the American legal system and reform the administration and delivery of justice.
Proceedings of this conference can be found at 70 Federal Rules Decisions 79 on-site at Courthouse Libraries through WestlawNext Canada.