Billings Learned Hand (/ˈlɜːrnɪd/ LURN-id; January 27, 1872 – August 18, 1961) was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a...
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American surname Learned Hand (1872–1961), an American judge and judicial philosopher Learned, Mississippi, a town in the United States Learned Pond, a body...
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famed judge Learned Hand, who served on both courts with his cousin during most of Augustus Hand's tenure. Born in Elizabethtown, New York, Hand received...
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States, the Hand formula, also known as the Hand rule, calculus of negligence, or BPL formula, is a conceptual formula created by Judge Learned Hand which describes...
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from Boston, Massachusetts, and Constance (née Hand) from New York. His maternal grandfather was Learned Hand, judge of the United States Court of Appeals...
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Marshall, and Sonia Sotomayor. Judge Learned Hand served on the court from 1924 to 1961, as did his cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, from 1927 until 1953. Judge Henry...
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nevertheless equivalent to the claimed invention. In the United States, Judge Learned Hand has described its purpose as being "to temper unsparing logic and prevent...
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Elliot Richardson (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
Normandy. He returned home, attended Harvard Law School, and clerked for Learned Hand and Felix Frankfurter before beginning his legal career at Ropes & Gray...
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Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
practice of law in Boston from 1931 to 1932. He was a law clerk for Judge Learned Hand of the Second Circuit in 1932. He was in private practice of law in Boston...
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Frankfurter to make acquaintances with distinguished jurists Learned Hand, Augustus Noble Hand, Julian Mack, and Charles Culp Burlingham in New York City...
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Ronald Dworkin (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
was a law clerk to Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1957 to 1958. Hand would later call Dworkin "the...
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Gerald Gunther (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
researching and writing his influential 818-page biography of Judge Learned Hand, titled Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge. Gunther's biography earned him numerous...
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Mary Ann Glendon (born October 7, 1938) is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See...
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M. Bernard Aidinoff (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
Prior to joining Sullivan & Cromwell, he served as law clerk to Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Aidinoff was a...
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Michael C. Donaldson (section Judge Learned Hand)
Correspondence of Learned Hand, a collection of Judge Learned Hand's personal letters. Aside from a few members of the US Supreme Court, Hand is the most-quoted...
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Circuit—Samuel Blatchford, Charles Merrill Hough, Learned Hand, Julius Marshuetz Mayer, Augustus Noble Hand, Martin Thomas Manton, Robert P. Patterson, Harold...
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Joseph Henry Beale, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Arthur Corbin, Ernst Freund, Learned Hand, Roscoe Pound, Harlan F. Stone, John Henry Wigmore, and Samuel Williston...
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W. Graham Claytor Jr. (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
graduated from Harvard Law School summa cum laude in 1936. He clerked for Learned Hand, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, then moved...
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negligence. The judgment was written by Judge Learned Hand wherein he described what is now called the Hand formula, a classic example of a balancing test...
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Paul Bender (jurist) (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
degrees from Harvard University. After law school Bender clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, then for...
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and dealing with the meaning of a promise in a contract. To wit, Judge Learned Hand opined: "A contract has, strictly speaking, nothing to do with the personal...
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clerks with the Supreme Court. This phenomenon probably began with Judge Learned Hand, and had been established by the time of Chief Justice Warren Burger...
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Theodore Roosevelt, Adolph Berle, as well as his close friends Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. His 1909 book The Promise...
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(biography of Learned Hand, Swan's fellow judge on the Second Circuit, contains extensive discussion of Swan) Marcia Nelson, The Remarkable Hands: An Affectionate...
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for the Second Circuit George Edward Hand (1809–1889), county probate judge of Wayne County, Michigan Learned Hand (1872–1961), judge on the United States...
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Feb 2008), University of Alabama. Hand, Learned (1953). The Spirit of Liberty, Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand, Mr. Justice Cardozo (2nd ed.). Alfred...
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Stanley M. Silverberg (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then clerked for Judge Learned Hand at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Justice...
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Robert von Mehren (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
Debevoise Plimpton), where he worked his entire career. He clerked for Judge Learned Hand at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals during the October 1946 term and...
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is learned by consciously challenging any negative self talk. Learned optimism was defined by Martin Seligman and published in his 1990 book, Learned Optimism...
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Thomas Ehrlich (category Law clerks of Learned Hand)
Article Editor for the Harvard Law Review. He was a law clerk to Judge Learned Hand of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Ehrlich became the...
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