Henry Friendly was a judge of the highest reputation – greater than Learned Hand in Justice Scalia’s opinion. His output was prodigious, his legacy unmatched: of his fifty-one clerks, twenty-one (including the present incumbent) became justices of the Supreme Court of the United States; in that Court’s decisions, only Learned Hand was cited more often than Friendly.
Five Friendlys
Michael Crennan
Published in December 2013–January 2014, no. 357
Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era
by David M. Dorsen
Harvard University Press (Inbooks), $49.95 hb, 512 pp, 9780674064393
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Michael Crennan
Michael Crennan taught English Literature in several Australian universities before practising at the Bar. After retiring from the Bar, he completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne; his dissertation dealt with the effect of the Roman historian Tacitus on English political and historical thinkers.
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