Monday, September 21, 2009

Justice Brandeis bio

This is just a review of the book, but it has its amusement value as a stand-alone.

Brandeis thought the law an instrument of morality and progress. “Is not the challenge of legal justice to conform to our contemporary notions of social justice?” he asked in a speech just weeks before President Wilson nominated him to the court. It is all but impossible to imagine the nomination of a lawyer like Brandeis today, and it is a small miracle that he was confirmed even in his day. More...

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