Louis Brandeis

Louis Brandeis Dembitz ( born November 13, 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky; † October 5, 1941 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and from 1916 to 1939 the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Life

Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His parents Adolph and Frederika (nee Dembitz ) Brandeis came from the Jewish community in Prague and emigrated after the revolution of 1848/ 49 in the Empire of Austria to the United States, where they opened a grain trade. Louis Brandeis attended Louisville Male High School and graduated there in 1872 at the age of 14 years with distinction.

Due to economic adversity and the Long Depression is just starting after the founder crash of 1873, Adolph Brandeis was forced to sell his company and went with the family for a few years back to Europe. Louis Brandeis attended the grammar school Anne School in Dresden at that time. 1875 the family went back to the U.S., where Brandeis began studying at Harvard Law School. As valedictorian, he graduated from law school in 1877.

1916 Brandeis was appointed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to the Supreme Court and remained in power until 1939. He headed there for many years a process of rethinking a: reform laws in the field of economic and industrial relations were always less explained by the majority of conservative judges to be unconstitutional, but especially accepted in the New Deal period in principle.

Brandeis was also one of the leaders of American Zionism, as well as supporters of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

According to him, the Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, as well as the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville is named. Its scientific estate is under the name of " Brandeis Papers" in this Law School of the University of Louisville.

One of its main achievements is the development of the "Right to Privacy" in the U.S. legislation. Between 1888 and 1890, wrote Brandeis and his partner Samuel Warren three basic articles on this topic for the Harvard Law Review, which meant that these rights have been recognized from then on in U.S. law (see Policy # History ).

Quote

"We can in this country have either a democracy or we can have great wealth, which is less concentrated in the hands, but we can not have both. "

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