Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ˈbrænds/; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) 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 (that is still in practice today as Nutter McClennen & Fish) 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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Boston Herald 22 Jan 2025
Those are among the key settlement agreements university leaders reached with Jewish student groups and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law ... The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human ...

Harvard adopts a definition of antisemitism for discipline cases

The Spokesman-Review 22 Jan 2025
Kenneth Marcus, chair of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a Jewish civil rights group, said that he hoped other universities would adopt the definition.

One day after Trump inauguration, Harvard settles two major antisemitism lawsuits and establishes new campus policies

The Times of India 22 Jan 2025
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The Algemeiner 21 Jan 2025
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Harvard settles in Title VI antisemitism lawsuits

The Hill 21 Jan 2025
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It’s Time to Stop Fetishizing Capitalism

Time 16 Jan 2025
Capitalism is a fetish ... imitated, opposed to the natural ... It was odd ... As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” ... .

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Alternet 16 Jan 2025
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US Supreme Court Declines to Hear CUNY Professors’ Case to Cut Ties With ‘Antisemitic’ Union

The Algemeiner 15 Jan 2025
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Chatanooga Times Free Press 14 Jan 2025
Two Tennessee congressmen are again teaming up on a bill that would require the Tennessee Valley Authority to release more information about how much it pays employees ... U.S ... Justice Louis Brandeis told us long ago that sunlight is a great disinfectant.

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Business Insider 13 Jan 2025
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AOL 09 Jan 2025
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Jewish Telegraph Agency 07 Jan 2025
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East Bay Times 07 Jan 2025
... the title of citizen” (to paraphrase former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) his former speechwriter, Hendrick Hertzberg, took part in a panel discussion of the Carter presidency on C-SPAN.

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