💬 Opinion 1d ago · Orin S. Kerr

Learned Hand's Reflections On His Professors

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In 1958, the great Judge Learned Hand ended a series of lectures at Harvard Law School by reflecting on his professors when he was a law student there in the 1890s. It remains my favorite passage about law professors, and a vision for us in the profession to aspire to meet. Judge Hand wrote:
More years ago than I like now to remember I sat in this building and listened to — yes, more than that, was dissected by — men all but one of whom are now dead. What I got from them was not alone the Rule i

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