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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ ˈ b r æ n d aɪ s /; 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.
Jan 27, 2016 · It is one of the ironies of history that a hundred years ago, a gifted man such as Louis Brandeis would be judged deficient because he was a son of immigrants and a member of a different faith.
Jun 7, 2016 · We're going to look at the Supreme Court a hundred years ago when Louis Brandeis became the first Jewish justice. And then we'll look at the court today and how it's been functioning with eight...
Dec 1, 2010 · To attempt a biography of Louis Brandeis is to confront a herculean challenge, for Brandeis was a central figure in many of the major developments that transformed the United States in the long, critical age from Reconstruction to World War II.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941), a towering legal and judicial figure, was instrumental in shaping modern American jurisprudence. His principles and ideas on the law, democracy and society are as relevant and useful today as they were in the first half of the 20th century — a time when individual liberties and the workaday world for ...
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).
Brandeis was an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson on policy, and influenced Wilsons’s New Freedom economic doctrine. He published two books in 1914, Other People’s Money and Business–A Profession , in which he argued in favor of trade union rights and against big business.
Louis Brandeis was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to fill Justice Hugo Black‘s seat on the Supreme Court of the United States on January 28, 1916. After an unprecedented four-month long confirmation process which was described as a “kind of inquisition”, Brandeis became the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was the son of Jewish immigrants. He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky where his father was a successful grain merchant. Brandeis entered Harvard Law School when he was eighteen and earned the highest average in the law school's history, graduating in 1877.
