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It was Brandeis Day for the Louisville Courier-Journal yesterday (November 8th.) In anticipation of his birthday coming up this Friday, they ran three articles about him. First off, Mel Urofsky excerpted material from his new biography that featured Brandeis’ connection with Louisville. Then there was a book review of the Urofsky biography by Laura Rothstein. [...]
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Mel Urofsky visited Brandeis University on September 29 and gave a speech about his new biography Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. He doesn’t read from the book, but he does do a good job covering all of the themes of the book, while throwing in some good anecdotes. The speech is included in its entirety [...]
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Brandeis and Insurance Reform
I just finished the chapter in Melvin Urofsky’s biography of Brandeis on Brandeis’ creation of Savings Bank Life Insurance. What I thought would be a dry chapter instead had a number of interesting parallels to today’s fight over health insurance. Near the start of the 20th century abuses in the life insurance industry were exposed [...]
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Just a reminder that Mel Urofsky’s new biography Louis D. Brandeis: A Life is released today. The New York Times ran a favorable review of it this last Sunday.
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Brandeis gets his own stamp
According to the Legal Times blog, Brandeis will soon be joining the august company of Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Wright, Gary Cooper, Elvis Presley and Bart Simpson. Yes, that’s right: he is getting his own postage stamp. Actually the USPS is releasing stamps for 4 justices at once: Brandeis himself, Brandeis’ protege Felix [...]
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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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Brandeis on the Daily Show
Jon Stewart used (and mocked!) Brandeis’ most famous quote repeatedly last night on a segment about transperancy in the Obama White House. Here it is for that 1% of the population who doesn’t have basic cable.
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The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville occasionally awards the Brandeis Medal to people who have made significant contributions to individual liberty and public service. The 2003 recipient was Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At the award ceremony, Bader Ginsburg gave the speech “From Brandeis to Breyer: Is There a Jewish Seat?” [...]
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