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  Louis Dembitz Brandeis Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Louis Brandeis was one of the most important Americans involved in this effort, first as a publicly minded lawyer and, after 1916, as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Brandeis was born on November 13, 1856, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Adolph and Fredericka Dembitz Brandeis.
Brandeis continued his investigations of the implications for democracy of the growing concentration of wealth in large corporations.
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  Louis Brandeis biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 - October 3, 1941) was an important American litigator, Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief.
Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the scion of a Jewish family originating from Prague.
Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts, was named after Louis Brandeis, as was the Brandeis Award.
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 Louis Brandeis - MSN Encarta
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), American jurist, one of the most famous justices of the United States Supreme Court, known for his liberal views and his dissenting opinions.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 13, 1856, the son of a prosperous grain merchant.
Brandeis died on October 5, 1941, in Washington, D.C. Important collections of his writings are The Social and Economic Views of Mr.
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 Brandeis, Louis Dembitz: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Louis Dembitz Brandeis's lifelong commitment to public service and social reform earned him the epithet the People's Lawyer.
Brandeis was famous for his prodigious intellect and his well-crafted, detailed dissents.
Brandeis was born November 13, 1856, in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of four children of Adolph Brandeis and Fredericka Dembitz Brandeis.
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 Louis Brandeis
Brandeis was a reformer who was interested in freeing government from corruption, making democratic government a reality, and using the law to protect the powerless from the powerful.
Brandeis agreed to defend Oregon's law, and produced what is now called a "Brandeis brief." The brief consisted of a couple of pages stating the test of the law's constitutionality.
Brandeis was not a religiously observant Jew, but believed deeply in the cause of Zionism, and is considered one of the most important leaders in the history of Zionism.
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 JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis David Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1856.
Louis especially admired an uncle, Lewis Dembitz, a scholarly lawyer and author in Louisville, sometimes known as "the Jewish scholar of the South." In honor of his uncle, Louis changed his middle name from David to Dembitz.
Brandeis' rise to leadership in the movement was rapid.
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 Louis Brandeis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brandeis retired from the Court in 1939, to be replaced by William O. Douglas.
Brandeis split with the European branch of Zionism, led by Chaim Weizmann, and resigned a leadership role in 1921.
The cremated remains of Justice Brandeis are interred under the portico of the Louis Brandeis Law school at the University of Louisville.
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 FindLaw Constitutional Law Center: Supreme Court: Justices: Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 13, 1856.
Louis was the youngest of four children--two girls and two boys.
Louis D. Brandeis From the Oyez Project (Northwestern University).
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 Louis Brandeis Biography
Louis Brandeis was a lawyer who dedicated his life to public service, earning the nickname the "people's attorney." As an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, he tried to balance the developing powers of modern government and society with the defending of individual freedoms.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born on November 13, 1856, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Adolph and Fredericka Dembitz Brandeis.
Brandeis also took part in the effort to bring legal protections to industrial workers, and as part of this effort he contributed a major idea to the Supreme Court legal process.
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 Biography of Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born on November 13, 1856 and died October 3, 1941.
Brandeis became the most prominent American Zionist., Brandeis, who was not raised to be religious, became involved in Zionism through a 1912 conversation with Jacob de Haas, editor of a Boston Jewish weekly and a follower of Theodore Herzl.
Brandeis emphasized the goal of self-determination and freedom for Jews through the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and the compatibility of Zionism and American patriotism.
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 Brandeis, Louis Dembitz - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916-39), b.
This "Brandeis brief," as it came to be called, revolutionized the practice of law.
Over the protests of the vested interests that Brandeis had alienated as "people's attorney," Wilson appointed (1916) him to the U.S. Supreme Court although opposition was voiced by anti-Semites and certain business interests.
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 Brandeis, Louis Dembitz. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
This “Brandeis brief,” as it came to be called, revolutionized the practice of law.
Over the protests of the vested interests that Brandeis had alienated as “people’s attorney,” Wilson appointed (1916) him to the U.S. Supreme Court although opposition was voiced by anti-Semites and certain business interests.
After Franklin Delano Roosevelt became (1933) President, Brandeis was one of the few justices who voted to uphold most of Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Brandeis,
Although Brandeis was founded by members of the American Jewish community, the university operates as an independent, nonsectarian institution.
Middletown, Conn. He was (1919-21) private secretary to Louis D. Brandeis, became a successful lawyer, and served (1933) as Undersecretary of the Treasury until he resigned in disagreement with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fiscal policy.
Revenge of the triple negative: a note on the Brandeis brief in Muller v.
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 Autograph - 605317 - Signature of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis from 1938, with original envelope
The son of Jewish immigrants, Brandeis was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky.
Brandeis began practicing law in St. Louis, but within a year he returned to Boston to practice with his classmate Samuel Warren.
Brandeis had a major impact on the American branch of the Zionist movement.
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 Louis D. Brandeis
Brandeis had a major impact on the American branch of the Zionist movement, drawing to it a number of sympathizers, improving its organization and its finance.
Brandeis did intervene from time to time in political matters for example he appealed to Roosevelt to oppose the British partition scheme of 1937 calling instead for the whole area of Eretz­Israel to become a Jewish National Home.
Brandeis represented a rather different genre of Zionism, one born out of the American context that affirmed Zionism as part of American ethnic identity.
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 Brandeis Papers
The Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) Papers at the University of Louisville reflect the varied personal and professional interests of a Louisville native, Boston attorney, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Brandeis' pre-court years as a reform-minded Boston attorney and his active role in the Zionist movement are extensively documented in the papers.
Brandeis University Libraries exhibit on Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
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 Quotes of the Day for 13 November 2004 - Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Louis David Brandeis was born at Louisville, Kentucky on this day in 1856, his parents were Jewish immigrants from Prague.
Louis admired and emulated his scholarly uncle Lewis Dembitz by becoming a remarkable scholar and changing his middle name to Dembitz.
Brandeis was impressed by their cause and became a key leader in that movement that resulted in the creation of Israel.
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 Louis Brandeis
Louis Brandeis, the son of Jewish parents, was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 13th November, 1856.
Brandeis was often aligned with his friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his decisions on the Supreme Court.
Louis Brandeis, who retired in February, 1939, died in Washington on 5th October, 1941.
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 Amazon.ca: Louis d Brandeis and the Progressive Tradition: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Urofsky's argument is that Brandeis's legendary Progressivism was born of the essentially conservative values of the Boston Brahmin tradition, with its stress on social improvement and the obligations of the elite.
Urofsky sees many of the characteristics of Brandeis' career both as a lawyer and as a reformer within this early activism, including a use of facts as the basis for change and the importance of education as a means of convincing the broader public of the value of the proposed solution.
He summarizes Brandeis' involvement in Zionism well, noting both his role in unifying the various small Zionist groups into a national organization and his subsequent differences with Chaim Weizmann.
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 Jewish Racism: Louis Brandeis: A Frankist Jew
Brandeis brought America into the First World War in a quid pro quo deal with the British in exchange for the Zionist Balfour Declaration by flmailing Woodrow Wilson with love letters Wilson had written to Mrs.
Brandeis and his leading Jewish friends instituted Rothschild's banking system in America, which led to the Great Depression.
Brandeis was known as the most deceitful lawyer in America.
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 Louis Brandeis - Picture - MSN Encarta
As a litigator and later as a member of the United States Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis was a champion of economic, social, and political justice.
In support of his arguments for reform, Brandeis used statistical data concerning social conditions.
The “Brandeis brief,” a legal document full of citations regarding social data as opposed to the traditional theoretical format, was named for his style of argumentation.
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 Boston Residences of Louis Dembitz Brandeis by Michael Alan Ross
The Brandeis family was close-knit and devoted to education.
Brandeis, in his prime advocacy years, his fifties and sixties, was both a local and national voice for democracy, morality, and moderate/healthy living.
Felix Frankfurter: He was Brandeis' pupil and, later, equal artisan of law and politics.
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 Boston Residences of Louis Dembitz Brandeis by Michael Alan Ross
Brandeis, in his prime advocacy years, his fifties and sixties, was both a local and national voice for democracy, morality, and moderate/healthy living.
At the request of Brandeis' uncle, Lewis Dembitz, the Hecht's assured Harvard University that Brandeis' law school tuition would be paid.
Evan's formation with Brandeis of a friendship which permeated both their lives provided opportunities for interaction with some of the best thinkers of the day.
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 Open Collections Program: Women Working: Louis D. Brandeis
As a successful lawyer and supporter of reform movements of the period, Louis Brandeis argued important public interest and labor reform cases and later became one of the most celebrated Justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1856.
Brandeis agreed to take the case and produced what is now called the "Brandeis brief," a statement of the law's constitutionality followed by over 100 pages of research data supporting the legislature's conclusion.
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 Louis Brandeis Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis, scion of a Jewish family originating from Prague, was born in Louisville, Kentucky on November 13, 1856 and died on October 3, 1941.
He was an important American litigator, Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief.
Brandeis remains regarded as the most thorough and balanced among Justices in the writing of briefs.
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 Amazon.ca: Louis Brandeis: The People's Justice: Books: Suzanne Freedman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grade 5-8-When Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court in 1916, the Senate was reluctant to admit a "social reformer and highly political individual into the conservative world of government law." Anti-Semitism motivated some of the protest.
When the nomination was confirmed, Brandeis became the first Jew and the first progressive justice to be appointed to the Court.
For example, Brandeis is depicted as a leader in the Zionist movement, yet there is little information about what he actually did, or why he developed such an affinity for the cause.
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 Historical Overview | Brandeis University
Founded in 1948, Brandeis University is named for the late Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the distinguished associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and reflects the ideals of academic excellence and social justice he personified.
Under each succeeding president, the university continued to grow in breadth and stature, while maintaining the very human scale of its educational environment and its solid liberal arts focus.
In 1985, Brandeis was elected to membership in the Association of American Universities, which represents the 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada.
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 Brandeis Louis Dembitz
Brandeis: An Intimate Biography of One of America's Truly Great Supreme Court Justices
Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America
The Brandeis way;: A case study in the workings of democracy
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 Louis Dembitz Brandeis Boston Homes by Michael Alan Ross
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Boston Homes by Michael Alan Ross
Brandeis and his wife Alice Goldmark Brandeis purchased 114 Mt. Vernon Street in 1890; and, after living there ten years, they moved with their daughters to 6 Otis Place in 1900, where they lived until 1916.
Filene's similar thinking, writing and action on social issues of the day, most likely, spurred Brandeis' ideas and advocacy on such issues as public transportation and industrial democracy.
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