
Juez
Estudioso estadounidense del derecho, juez de la Corte de Apelaciones (1872–1961)
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Join the roomBillings Learned Hand fue un jurista, abogado y filósofo judicial estadounidense. Sirvió como juez federal de primera instancia en el Tribunal de Distrito de los EE. UU. para el Distrito Sur de Nueva York de 1909 a 1924 y como juez federal de apelaciones en la Corte de Apelaciones de los EE. UU. para el Segundo Circuito de 1924 a 1961.
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“Life is not a thing of knowing only — nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.”
“Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.”
“Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.”
“It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.”
“This is the most miserable of cases, but we must dispose of it as though it had been presented by actual lawyers.”
“Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.”
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