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United States portal. v. t. e. Louis Dembitz Brandeis ( / ˈbrændaɪs /; 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.
Louis Brandeis (born Nov. 13, 1856, Louisville, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 5, 1941, Washington, D.C.) was a lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916–39) who was the first Jew to sit on the high court.
Brandeis reading on his porch, c. 1935. Justice Brandeis died in 1941, having lived half his life in the 19th century and half in the 20th. Yet his guiding principles and ideas on free speech, privacy, government intrusion and democracy continue to influence and shape modern jurisprudence and society.
Jan 27, 2016 · He was a model of judicial liberalism, a liberalism that comprised of both the theoretical with the practical. For Louis Brandeis, both were essential, not only in life, both also in law.
Louis Brandeis, (born Nov. 13, 1856, Louisville, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 5, 1941, Washington, D.C.), U.S. jurist. The son of Bohemian Jewish immigrants, he attended schools in Kentucky and Germany before obtaining his law degree from Harvard (1877).
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born in 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky to a family of Jewish immigrants from Prague. Brandeis went to high school in Louisville, and graduated at age 14.
Jun 7, 2016 · JEFFREY ROSEN: Louis D. Brandeis was the most important critic of bigness in business and government since Thomas Jefferson. He was a fierce opponent of oligarchs like J.P. Morgan, who took ...
