Learned Hand vs. Sir John Bayley
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Learned Hand
1872 – 1961
Law
United States
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.
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"Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself."
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Sir John Bayley
1793 – 1871
Law
United Kingdom
Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet, PC, was an English judge.
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"If a man endeavours to obtain a repeal of those laws, which are conceived to be obnoxious, or the introduction of any laws which he believes to be salutary, if …"
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