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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 1,646,174 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Louis Brandeis is the 54th most popular lawyer (down from 47th in 2019), the 5,417th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,574th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Louis Brandeis ranks 54 out of 68Before him are Lucius Cincius Alimentus, Leo Frank, René David, Henry de Bracton, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and William Rehnquist. After him are Lawrence Lessig, Koen Lenaerts, Wendell Willkie, Clarence Darrow, John Selden, and Abdulqawi Yusuf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Louis Brandeis ranks 89Before him are Paul von Jankó, Luigi Bianchi, Aleksander Brückner, Robert Kajanus, Matilde Serao, and Ernesto Schiaparelli. After him are Władysław Ślewiński, James Buchanan Duke, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Willem Kes, and Ernst Brenner. Among people deceased in 1941, Louis Brandeis ranks 131Before him are Dmitry Lavrinenko, Alfred Pringsheim, Vilmos Aba-Novák, Milka Ternina, Sueo Ōe, and Penelope Delta. After him are Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Lev Dovator, Tom Phillips, Yekaterina Zelenko, Marcus Hurley, and Źmitrok Biadula.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Brandeis ranks 5,417 out of 18,182Before him are Ramsey Clark (1927), Sandra Faber (1944), Ellen Corby (1911), Buster Douglas (1960), Adam Brody (1979), and Anna Lee Fisher (1949). After him are Robert Kerman (1947), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Luther Vandross (1951), Nathanael Greene (1742), Aron Ralston (1975), and Gertrude Käsebier (1852).

Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Louis Brandeis ranks 11Before him are Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Roy Cohn (1927), Leo Frank (1884), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), and William Rehnquist (1924). After him are Lawrence Lessig (1961), Wendell Willkie (1892), Clarence Darrow (1857), Ken Starr (1946), Michael Cohen (1966), and Merrick Garland (1952).