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Brandeis
[ bran-dahys ]
noun
- Louis Dem·bitz [dem, -bits], 1856–1941, U.S. lawyer and writer: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1916–39.
Example Sentences
Wixon establishing due process and free speech rights for noncitizens facing deportation and to embrace Brandeis’ and Holmes’ ideas about free speech.
Wixon built on the ideas of Justice Louis Brandeis that free speech plays an essential role in American democracy as well as the ideas of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. that free speech means “freedom for the thought that we hate.”
Moreover, the legal profession has long been considered an advocate of what former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called “the attainment of liberty through law.”
In the U.S. — there's a great book about this, "Social Thought in America: The Revolt Against Formalism" — that included pragmatic thinkers like John Dewey, William James, Louis Brandeis and others, who basically said these abstractions and general laws don't capture the essence of the situation.
There's the work, mostly of non-economists, on monopoly power, the New Brandeis movement.
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