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Louis Brandeis

1856 - 1941

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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title, and was thereby credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law." He was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the century, particularly in his resistance to the monopolization of the New England railroad and advice to Woodrow Wilson as a candidate. In his books, articles and speeches, including Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It, and The Curse of Bigness, he criticized the power of large banks, money trusts, powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Brandeis has received more than 1,782,969 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Louis Brandeis is the 60th most popular lawyer (down from 54th in 2019), the 5,064th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,405th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Louis Brandeis ranks 60 out of 136. Before him are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Jean Domat, Alberico Gentili, Paul Alexander, Hisashi Owada, and Hersch Lauterpacht. After him are Roy Cohn, René David, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., James B. Donovan, Abdulqawi Yusuf, and William Rehnquist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Louis Brandeis ranks 82. Before him are Booker T. Washington, Yu Kil-chun, Felix Mottl, Franz Roubaud, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, and Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger. After him are André Gedalge, Luigi Bianchi, Matilde Serao, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Aleksander Brückner, and Elbert Hubbard. Among people deceased in 1941, Louis Brandeis ranks 135. Before him are Milka Ternina, Dimitrios Golemis, Otto Strandman, Pavel Filonov, Fritz Manteuffel, and Diederik Korteweg. After him are Hamilton Harty, Yakov Smushkevich, Georgette Leblanc, Jin Shuren, Franciszek Kleeberg, and Karl Neukirch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Brandeis ranks 5,064 out of 20,380. Before him are Randy Crawford (1952), Rockwell Kent (1882), Josiah Royce (1855), Louis J. Mordell (1888), Smedley Butler (1881), and Joseph Grew (1880). After him are Tony Randall (1920), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Verne Troyer (1969), Daniel Webster (1782), Rebecca Romijn (1972), and Henry Darrow (1933).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Louis Brandeis ranks 9. Before him are John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Warren Christopher (1925), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Robert Bilott (1965), and Paul Alexander (1946). After him are Roy Cohn (1927), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), James B. Donovan (1916), William Rehnquist (1924), Wendell Willkie (1892), and Lawrence Lessig (1961).

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