“In my long life, I have seen many changes. Changes for the better. The most important is that we are not using the talent of all the people, not just half of them.” LawFeminismEqualityLawyerCivil RightsChangesRbgRuth Bader Ginsberg Book:Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law Source: Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
“[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."” PeopleSaidLawMoralityThickClownHolmesLoathe Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them.” ShouldLawViewsJudgingRestraintJudicialLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike down centralizing federal agencies in the New Deal, and uphold state economic experimentation.” BelieveStatesLawDealsEconomicStrikesAgencyExperimentationNew DealLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.” WritingMindFactsLawHoursMovementEvidenceCourtConvincedBrilliantMaximumCollectingIn-lawsSuffrageSister In LawLouis BrandeisWomen's SuffrageEmpirical EvidenceSuffrage Movement Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in their path-breaking work on behalf of desegregation.” GovernmentSchoolLawSupportPathInspiredUniversityAfrican AmericanFederal GovernmentBehalfSegregationWilsonLaw SchoolHoustonCourteousHamiltonLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.” ThinkingRunningLastsLawMotherHeardCollegeBattleShotsSoldierHearingRememberedBelovedAmerican HistoryUnclesBullsArdentClerksKentuckyConfederateAbolitionistLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem archaic nowadays.” PeopleShowsSeemsSchoolLawTaughtStriveProseAbstractionIn-lawsHolmesGreat WritersLaw School Author:Jeffrey Rosen
