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Justice Louis Brandeis once said "sunlight is the greatest disinfectant", and as president I'm going to make it impossible for congressmen or lobbyists to slip pork barrel projects or corporate welfare into laws when no one's looking, because when I'm president, meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. No more secrecy ...
The law school's Louis D. Brandeis Society awards the Brandeis Medal. The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville opened in 1846 and was named for Justice Brandeis in 1997. The Brandeis University Law Journal , one of the country's few undergraduate law publications, launched in 2009.
Brandeis, dubbed the "people's lawyer", was a controversial figure for his challenging of monopolies, criticism of investment banks, his advocacy for workers' rights, and his advocacy for protecting civil liberties. [7] [8] He was regarded as a "trust buster". [4] Brandeis was among the nation's most noted Progressive reformers.
6. "The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen." Louis Brandeis, American Lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Bill Clinton “Hillary and I mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter and give thanks for his long, good life,” Clinton, the country's 42nd president, said in a statement on Sunday.
Some of the scientific evidence detailed in the Brandeis brief was later challenged and refuted. [8] But it still is regarded as a pioneering attempt to combine law and social science. [9] The Brandeis brief changed the direction of the Supreme Court and of U.S. law. It is considered a model for future Supreme Court presentations in cases ...
The winner of the Conservative leadership contest will be announced on Saturday, following months of speeches, debates and gaffes. Here are some of the key quotes from the leadership campaign.
The New Brandeis movement opposes the school of thought in modern antitrust law that antitrust should center on customer welfare (as generally advocated by the Chicago school of economics). Instead, the New Brandeis movement advocates a broader antimonopoly approach that is concerned with private power, the structure of the economy and market ...