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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Brandeis University, Muller v. Oregon, Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville School of Law, WBRS, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis International Business School, VoiceMale, National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis Judges, Middlesex University, Rabb School of Continuing Studies, BIMA at Brandeis University, Brandeis Brief, Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It, The Blowfish, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Louis Brandeis House, Rosenstiel Award, Brandeis University President's House, Brandeis Medal, Michael Rush, Brandeis blue, Public Franchise League. Excerpt: Louis Dembitz Brandeis (pronounced ; November 13, 1856 - October 5, 1941) was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular mode. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the college's history. Brandeis settled in Boston where he became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes. 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". Years later, a book he published, entitled Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It, suggested ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts, which partly explains why he later fought against powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. He also became active in the Zionist movement, seeing it as a solution to the "Jewish problem" of antisemitism in Europe and Russia, while at the same time being a way to "revive the Jewish spirit." When his family's finances became secure, he began devoting most of his time to public causes and was later dubbed the "People's Lawyer." He insisted on serving on cases without pay so that he would be free to address the wider issues involved. The Economist magazine calls him "A Robin Hood of the law." Among his notable early cases were actions fighting railroad monopolies; defending workplace and labor laws; helping create the Federal Reserve System; and presenting ideas for the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He achieved recognition by submitting a case brief, later called the "Brandeis Brief," which relied on expert testimony from people in other professions to support his case, thereb