brandeis, louis dembitz

Discusses Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis and his involvement in "Erie Railroad v. Tompkins," the 1938 case that shifted a large proportion of power from the federal to state courts.

Includes the use of anecdotes to present the personal and professional life of the first Jew to serve on the Supreme Court.

Biographies of four Jewish Americans whose activities in women's rights, abolition, law, nursing, and the military contributed to the growth, development, and needed reform of the country.

A biography of the lawyer, judge, popularizer of Zionist causes, and first Jew to serve on the Supreme Court, who helped end child labor in America, introduced the concepts of social security, minimum wage laws, and unemployment compensation, and, in short, devoted his life to social justice.