Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis lived from 1856 to 1941 and was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. He was a leading figure in the antitrust movement at the turn of the twentieth century, particularly in his resistance to the monopolization of the New England railroad, and starting in 1890 he helped develop the right to privacy concept by co-writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title. He submitted a case brief, later called the Brandeis brief, that relied on expert testimony from other professions to support his argument, setting a new precedent in evidence presentation, and was known before his appointment as the People's Lawyer for taking cases without pay so he could address wider issues. President Woodrow Wilson nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1916, and the Senate confirmed him by a vote of 47 to 22, making him the first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court justice.