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Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge - Hardcover

Gunther, Gerald

 
9780394588070: Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 039458807X ISBN 13: 9780394588070
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

A leading constitutional scholar offers a definitive portrait of one of the great American judges of the twentieth century, detailing the private life, legal work, public persona, and seminal impact of Justice Learned Hand. 25,000 first printing. History Alt.

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Gerald Gunther has been Professor of Constitutional Law at Stanford University Law School, where he is also William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law.

Gerald Gunther served as law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and later to Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s, and then entered private legal practice in New York. Since 1962 he has been Professor of Constitutional Law at Stanford University Law School, where he is also William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law.

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moving account of the life and work of one of the great judges of the twentieth century, whose work has left a profound mark on our legal, intellectual, and social landscape. The greatest judge never to be appointed to the Supreme Court, Learned Hand is widely considered the peer of Justices Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardozo. In his more than fifty years on the bench, he left an unequaled legacy of lastingly influential writings. This distinctive biography goes well beyond Hand's official work, however, to depict both a complex human being and the times in which he lived. The first to draw on the enormous collection of the judge's private papers, the eminent constitutional scholar Gerald Gunther vividly portrays a public man consumed by private doubts. Gunther's lively account moves from Hand's childhood in a formidable (and anxiety-producing) family of lawyers to his years at Harvard as a studious outsider, his frustrating experience in private law practice, his felt inadequacies in marriage, and his wo

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039458807X
ISBN 13 
9780394588070
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Gebundene Ausgabe
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