Louis Brandeis
Jurist, Politician
1856 – 1941
Who was Louis Brandeis?
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, who raised him in a secular home. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the law school's history.
Brandeis settled in Boston where he founded a law firm and became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title, and was thereby credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law". He later published a book titled Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It, suggesting ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts, which partly explains why he later fought against powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. He also became active in the Zionist movement, seeing it as a solution to antisemitism in Europe and Russia, while at the same time being a way to "revive the Jewish spirit."
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- Born
- Nov 13, 1856
Louisville - Also known as
- Louis Dembitz Brandeis
- Spouses
- Alice Goldmark
(1891/03/23 - )
- Alice Goldmark
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish American
- Czech American
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard Law School
- Louisville Male High School
- Lived in
- Boston
- Louisville
- Died
- Oct 5, 1941
Washington, D.C.
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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