Michael Foot vs. Learned Hand
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Michael Foot
1913 – 2010
Michael Mackintosh Foot was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983. Foot began his career as a journalist on Tribune and the Evening Standard. He co-wrote the 1940 polemic against appeasement of Adolf Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym.
"judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes."
Learned Hand
1872 – 1961
Billings Learned Hand was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 to 1961.
"Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself."