He was an early champion of the right to privacy and pioneer the idea of pro bono work by attorneys. TolkienĪs a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a family of reformers who came to the United States to escape European anti-Semitism, established the way modern law is practiced. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.

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Recorded Monday, Decemat Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Brandeis: A Life, was published by Pantheon in September 2009. A prodigious author and lecturer, he writes widely on constitutional history and has been the editor for the past 17 years of the Journal of Supreme Court History. Urofsky is Professor of Law and Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He explores Brandeis’ work as a successful lawyer pioneering how law would be practiced in the new era, as a reformer who represented public causes and proposed the idea of pro bono work, as advocate who transformed the moribund American Zionist movement into a political powerhouse, and as a Supreme Court justice who championed the right to privacy and the modern jurisprudence for free speech.

Brandeis, one of the towering figures of the 20th century. Urofsky comes to Spertus to discuss his moving portrait of Louis D. To stay up to date on the stories that matter.Īuthor Melvin I. WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.

Louis D. Brandeis by Melvin I. Urofsky