Brandeis

[bran-dahys]

noun

1. Louis Dembitz 1856–1941, U.S. lawyer and writer: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1916–39.

Example Sentences

That’s the observation of David Weil, a labor expert at Brandeis University whose nomination by President Biden for a top-level post at the Department of Labor was sidelined by conservative opposition in 2022.

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Marcus, chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, said a systemwide agreement would “provide the federal government with assurances that the regents are making changes across the board.”

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This week’s appearance by five gubernatorial candidates points to the importance of Jewish voters, who tend to vote at higher rates than average Americans, according to Brandeis University.

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Wixon establishing due process and free speech rights for noncitizens facing deportation and to embrace Brandeis’ and Holmes’ ideas about free speech.

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Wixon built on the ideas of Justice Louis Brandeis that free speech plays an essential role in American democracy as well as the ideas of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. that free speech means “freedom for the thought that we hate.”

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