How Justice David Souter inspired the collection of the letters of Learned Hand
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2013 · Education
Constance Jordan, author of Reason and Imagination, discusses how Supreme Court Justice David Souter inspired her to collect the letters of her grandfather, Justice Learned Hand. Constance Jordan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at Claremont Graduate University. Jordan has published many books and articles on the subject of literature and the law, including Reason and Imagination: The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand. For more information: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/LegalHistory/?view=usa&ci=9780199899104 (c) Oxford University Press 2013
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