Learned Hand: the man and the judge

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Billings Learned Hand was one of the most influential judges in America. The author procides a complete account of the professional and personal life of leanred hand, conveying the substance and range of his judicial and intellectual contributions.

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Full title :Learned Hand : the man and the judge / Gerald Gunther ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Publication Date:2010.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

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"Oxford scholarship online."

Includes index.

Title from home page (viewed Jan. 10, 2011).

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780195377774, 019537777X, 9780199869374, 0199869375
oclc:ocn707877931
LC Classification:KF373.H29
Dewey Decimal:347.732234

The early years -- Learned Hand and Frances Fincke -- From Wall Street lawyer to Federal District Judge -- The marriage and its tensions -- The peak of political enthusiasm : Herbert Croly, Theodore Roosevelt, and the progressive years -- Promotion to the Second Circuit -- The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1920s and 1930s : Hand as first among equals -- Achieving national renown during the nation's complacent years, 1919-1928 -- The Hoover years and Hand's missed chance for promotion to the Supreme Court -- The New Deal -- The road to war and the break with Lippmann -- The chief judgeship and World War II -- The last chance for a Supreme Court appointment : the 1942 vacancy -- The postwar years, the Cold War, and Mccarthyism -- Active retirement from "regular active service."

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Biographies Hand, Learned Judges Judges -- Biography. -- United States Juges -- Biographies. -- États-Unis United States United States., Circuit Court (2nd Circ…