Melvin I. Urofsky: On Louis D. Brandeis
by KCET
on December 15, 2009 12:22 PM
Drawing on family papers and materials never before available, historian and author Melvin I. Urofsky explores the electrifying life and career of Louis D. Brandeis (1956-1941). Hear Urofsky discuss how, as Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis developed the modern jurisprudence of free speech, laid the basis for a constitutionally protected right to privacy, and formulated the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states.
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