Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

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As a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a circle of relatives of reformers who came to america to escape European anti-Semitism, established the way up to date law is practiced. He was once an early champion of the right to privacy and pioneer the idea of pro bono work by attorneys. Brandeis invented savings bank life insurance in Massachusetts and was once a driving force in the development of the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Reserve Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade Commission.
 
Brandeis witnessed and suffered from the anti-Semitism rampant in america in the early twentieth century, and with the outbreak of World War I, became at age fifty-eight the head of the American Zionist movement. All through the brutal six-month congressional confirmation battle that ensued when Woodrow Wilson nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1916, Brandeis was once described as “a disturbing element in any gentlemen’s club.” But once at the Court, he became considered one of its most influential members, developing the up to date jurisprudence of free speech and the doctrine of a constitutionally secure right to privacy and suggesting what became referred to as the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states. In this award-winning biography, Melvin Urofsky gives us a panoramic view of Brandeis’s unprecedented have an effect on on American society and law.

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