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Article: Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge.
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- December 1, 1994
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Gerald Gunther Alfred A. Knopf, 201 East 50th St., New York, NY 10011. 818 pp., $35. Reviewed by Donald A. Dripps
Gerald Gunther, professor of constitutional law at Stanford University Law School, has given us an exhaustive yet readable biography of the legendary judge. The length of Hand's career--he became a federal judge six years after the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk and served until his death four years after Sputnik--might have daunted any but the most dedicated biographer. During that long career, Hand wrote 4,000 opinions and frequent articles and carried on a vast correspondence. (The Learned Hand Papers include 100,000 items.) Given this ...