Talk:Learned Hand

NPOV
This article needs to be reworked NPOV as is leaning heavily towards overinflating his accomplishments. So Judge Hand was the greatest appeals Judge of all time, isn't that like being the best AAA baseball player that never got into the major's? A little less biased revision would is warranted.


 * I don't think your comparison to sports makes much sense, you don't have to move beyond simply being a judge to let your legal intelligence shine. In sports, no one really knows what you can do unless you're compared to professionals. Further, while I'm just a lowly 1L, he's certainly quoted in my casebooks more than most judges so while there might be an inflation or two occurring, saying that he couldn't have been that great because he never went beyond being an appeals judge seems extremely NPOV to me. KenBest (talk) 01:29, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

citing cases
It's a detail, I know, but... With the following cases, my suspicion is that there's a formatting inconsistency. I.e. I suspect that they're all from the second circuit, and so the second one should read "159 F.2d 848 (2d Cir. 1947)."


 * 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. 1947)
 * 159 F.2d 848 (CA-2, 1947)
 * 69 F.2d 809, 810–11 (2d Cir. 1934)

But really, I haven't the foggiest. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 01:39, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * That's right, "2d Cir." is the proper court abbreviation, not "CA-2." The cite to the 1934 case, btw, includes a pinpoint cite to pages 810-11, so that's alright.  Postdlf (talk) 14:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I wasn't sure how the case was supposed to be cited. Thanks for clarification. Nishkid64 (Make articles, not wikidrama) 19:58, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I am not up to speed with this and am not citing the cases this way yet. Does anyone know an authoritative site that lists the Second Circuit cases, with citation details? qp10qp (talk) 17:05, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * As no one has responded, legal cites are generally done in accordance with either Bluebook or ALWD citing. I believe they're actually very close in most instances, though i've personally never spent a lot of time comparing them. In any event, there really aren't that many sources out there explaining the citation save the books themselves or the website versions of the books. KenBest (talk) 01:37, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Albany's Main Residential Street?
What is Albany's main residential street? Doesn't this change with the times? The link takes you to a Wikipedia page about Albany streets, without clarifying which street Hand lived on. Anyone know where his family lived in Albany? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.183.17.211 (talk) 16:55, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

How do we know that Learned Hand voted for FDR in 1936 as it says on the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Happy Wisdom (talk • contribs) 19:50, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Check the source cited in that section. postdlf (talk) 20:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I did, it is not online. It is a book. Happy Wisdom (talk) 23:10, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks like you have a library trip in your future. postdlf (talk) 23:46, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I guess so. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Happy Wisdom (talk • contribs) 00:59, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Why always "Learned Hand"
Why does the article keep calling him "Learned Hand"? Why not just "Hand" like normal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by EEng (talk • contribs) 03:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
 * "/Judge/ Learned Hand" has the ring of an Indian name. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.251.165.105 (talk) 01:26, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Admiration offered for a model of prose and pedagogy
Having worked for many years in explanatory journalism, I feel impelled to compliment the author of this article on Learned Hand. I had never before familiarized myself with his life, and today just stumbled upon this entry during peregrinations between Justices Brandeis, Cardozo and Frankfurter, and the Supreme Court’s impact on America’s interbellum years.

Anyway, your writing is lovely, the personal to professional dynamics of Hand’s life well-proportioned, and your navigation of the tensions between his estimable political convictions and his unpersuasive judicial caution is, well, utterly judicious. Most importantly, of course, your command over the facts of Hand’s life are level, plumb, precise and discursive.

The anonymity imposed by Wikipedia on writers and editors has always baffled me, but whoever you are, thank you for an engaging read and congratulations for an encyclopedically perfect entry.

2601:646:200:CBE0:75D5:1014:54B3:7BA4 (talk) 09:00, 25 January 2020 (UTC)Denny Smith globeandorbit@gmail.com