Archive for July, 2009
More Rarities Found in Library
More sping cleaning, more rarities:
While going through our collection of uncataloged antiques, I found 4 previously unknown (at least to the current staff) books owned John Marshall Harlan. Here’s a screenshot of the title page of one of them:
(I love the subject matter of some of these 19th century treatises. In addition to the Law [...]
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The things you find when cleaning house…
The Law Library here at the University of Louisville has had a collection of donated books that have sat neglected, unloved, and worst of all, uncataloged in our attic for who knows how many decades. This summer, I started going through the books and officially adding them to our [...]
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Every time there are confirmation hearings for a new Supreme Court justice, there is renewed interest (at least on the media’s part) in the confirmation hearings of Brandeis. The Brandeis nomination set the standard for contentious confirmation hearings. Brandeis was nominated by Wilson on January 28, 1916. Brandeis was not confirmed until June 1, over [...]
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Mel Urofsky is unquestionably the premiere Brandeis scholar today. Back in the 1960’s he and David Levy started publishing Brandeis’ correspondence in what became a 7 volume set. Since then he has published numerous articles and books on Zionism, progressivism and other causes Brandeis was involved with. During that time, he has repeatedly visited the [...]
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A new Brandeis book has just come out: Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932 by Gerald Berk. It’s about Brandeis’ belief that it was competition and not monopoly that should be regulated and how that led to the formation of the Federal Trade Commission.
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