Law & the humanities: an uneasy relationship.

From: Daedalus | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

In 1930 Judge Learned Hand, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished judges in our nation's history, spoke to the Juristic Society at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In his address, "Sources of Tolerance," he told his listeners, 

 
  I venture to believe that it is as important to a judge called upon to 
  pass on a question of constitutional law, to have at least a bowing 
  acquaintance with Acton and Maitland, with Thucydides, Gibbon, and 
  Carlyle, with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Milton, with Machiavelli, 
  Montaigne and Rabelais, with Plato, Bacon, Hume ...

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