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Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis ( BRAN-dysse; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Brandeis was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the century, particularly in his resistance to the monopolization of the New England railroad. His anti-monopolistic jurisprudence laid the intellectual foundation for the New Brandeis movement, a contemporary revival of antitrust thought spearheaded by figures such as Lina Khan and Tim Wu. Starting in 1890, Brandeis 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." In his books, articles and speeches, including Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, and The Curse of Bigness, he criticized the power of large banks, money trusts, powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. He also spoke in favor of syndicalist reforms like co-determination, workplace democracy and multi-stakeholder businesses. He later became active in the Zionist movement, seeing it as a solution to antisemitism in Europe, while at the same time being a way to "revive sense of the Jewish spirit." When his family's finances became secure, he began devoting most of his time to public causes, and he was later dubbed the "People's Lawyer." He insisted on taking cases without pay so that he would be free to address the wider issues involved. The Economist newspaper called him "A Robin Hood of the law." Among his notable early cases were actions fighting railroad monopolies, defending workplace and labor laws, helping create the Federal Reserve System, and presenting ideas for the new Federal Trade Commission. He achieved recognition by submitting a case brief, later called the "Brandeis brief", which relied on expert testimony from people in other professions to support his case, thereby setting a new precedent in evidence presentation. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated Brandeis to a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. His nomination was bitterly contested, partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas later wrote, "Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible ... [and] the fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court." On June 1, 1916, he was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 47 to 22, to become one of the most famous and influential figures ever to serve on the high court. His opinions were, according to legal scholars, some of the "greatest defenses" of freedom of speech and the right to privacy ever written by a member of the Supreme Court.

Infobox

Nominated by
Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by
Joseph Lamar
Succeeded by
William O. Douglas
Born
Louis David Brandeis(1856-11-13)November 13, 1856Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Died
October 5, 1941(1941-10-05) (aged 84)Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party
Republican (before 1912)Democratic (after 1912)
Spouse
mw- Alice Goldmark (m. 1891)
Children
2
Education
Harvard University (LLB)
Party
Republican (before 1912)Democratic (after 1912)

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Preceded byJoseph Lamar
Preceded byJoseph Lamar
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Preceded byJoseph Lamar
Legal offices
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1916–1939
Legal offices
Succeeded byWilliam Douglas
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Preceded byJoseph Lamar
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1916–1939
Succeeded byWilliam Douglas

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