Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge. From: The Economist (US) | Date: September 17, 1994 | COPYRIGHT 1994 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

LEARNED HAND: THE MAN AND THE JUDGE. By Gerald Gunther. Knopf; 818 pages; $35

AT THE age of 87, at a reception for the annual crop of law clerks at his court in 1959, Judge Learned Hand sang:

The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw And I, my Lords, embody the Law.

The clerks were wise enough to realise that Hands's first assertion, borrowed from Gilbert and Sullivan, was satiric and the second the plai...

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