Brandeis, Louis

Dennis Holmgren, J.D. 2002 from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law of the University of Louisville, provided valuable research assistance and generated the computer graphics for the figures in Chapter 1. Rob Wright, J.D. 2003, ably assisted with the final reference check. 

Contentious discourse is a part of our everyday lives. People argue about topics such as politics, religion, moral values, often causing more harm than good. As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, Behind every argument is someone s ignorance. ... 

In practice, the ability of large corporations to relocate tied the hands of state regulators. Louis Brandeis, the jurist who inspired many New Dealers, famously described the states as the laboratories of democracy. But—as a young Massachusetts legislator named Barney Frank would remark years later—Justice Brandeis s laboratories have a problem you can t run a good experiment if the rats are free to choose their own cages. 

He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley at Washington University, St. Louis and at Brandeis University. He was one of the founding professors of the University of California, San Diego. In later years, he became a member of the faculty at the University of Southern California. He received the Fermi medal in 1996. 

Federal Reserve Act of 1913, chapter 6, 40 Stat. 251 (1913) Louis D. Brandeis, Other People s Money, and How the Bankers Use It (1914) Simon Johnson James Kwak, r3 Bankers 29 (2010). 

The definition of privacy as the Right to be Alone is often erroneously attributed to Warren and Brandeis. See Warren Brandeis. See Cooley (1888) as cited in Warrai and Brandeis (1980). Additionally the concept of privacy as the right to be let alone , and the right most valued by civilized man was embraced by US courts in the landmark dissenting opinion of Justiee Louis D. Brandeis in Olmsted v. United States. See Olmsted v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 478 (1928) [hereinafter Olmstead.]... 

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