Some American Jews, including Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, did try their hands at quiet diplomacy with some success, such that the quotas were being filled by 1939.

Kennedy administration policies also have been assailed now from another direction by 70 Harvard, Boston University, Brandeis, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology educators.

His honorary degrees include doctorates from Yeshiva University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Bar Ilan University, Brandeis University, and Florida International University.

In 1952 he began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University, then at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, where he taught philosophy and politics, and finally ( by then he was past the usual retirement age ), at the University of California, San Diego.

* In 1999 he received the Louis Brandeis Award from Privacy International.

Warren and Brandeis declared that information which was previously hidden and private could now be " shouted from the rooftops.

* In 1998, he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

In 2010, Simon received an honorary degree from Brandeis University, where he performed " The Boxer " at the main commencement ceremony.

Witten attended the Park School of Baltimore ( class of ' 68 ), and received his Bachelor of Arts with a major in history and minor in linguistics from Brandeis University in 1971.

The primary drafters of 1933 Act were Huston Thompson, a former Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) chairman, and Walter Miller and Ollie Butler, two attorneys in the Commerce Department's Foreign Service Division, with input from Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

At that time, a new tradition of bright law students clerking for the U. S. Supreme Court had been begun by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, for whom Acheson clerked for two terms from 1919 to 1921.

Alpert was to be chairman of Brandeis from 1946 to 1954, and a director from 1946 until his death.

The origin of what was to become Brandeis was closely associated with the name of Albert Einstein from February 5, 1946, when he agreed to the establishment of the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc., until June 22, 1947, when he withdrew his support.

Six years later, Einstein would decline the offer of an honorary degree from Brandeis, writing to Brandeis president Abram L. Sachar that " what happened in the stage of preparation of Brandeis University was not at all caused by a misunderstanding and cannot be made good any more.

Brandeis University is a part of the Boston Library Consortium, which allows its students, faculty, and staff to access and borrow books and other materials from other BLC institutions including, Brown University, Tufts University, and Williams College.

After graduating from Brandeis, she moved to Paris and studied theatre with actor Jacques Lecoq.

He also received an honorary degree in humane letters from Brandeis University and numerous other awards for leadership in human rights.

In 2003 an extensive collection of articles from the Polish debate, in English translation, was compiled by Joanna Michlic and Professor Antony Polonsky of Brandeis University and published under the title ‘ The Neighbors Respond .’

She holds honorary degrees from Brandeis University ( 1996 ); the University of Washington ( 2002 ); Smith College ( 2003 ); University of Winnipeg ( 2005 ); the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( 2007 ), and Knox College ( 2008 ).

Advocates of this approach sometimes cite a quotation from a dissent by Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann:

In 1909, his Dragoon regiment was stationed at Brandeis an der Elbe ( Brandýs nad Labem ), from where he visited his aunt at Franzensbad.

On hearing this, the Archduke came down post haste from his regiment at Brandeis and sought out his grandmother, Archduchess Maria Theresa, who was also my aunt and the natural confidante in such matters.

Past Supreme Court justices from Harvard Law School include David Souter, Harry Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Lewis Powell ( LLM ), and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., among others.

However, on appeal the Supreme Court held, in an opinion drafted by Justice Brandeis, that such decisions and inconsistent rulings based on a general federal common law were unconstitutional, and that decisions by a state supreme court were " laws " that federal courts were bound to follow under the Rule of Decision Act.

Brandeis noted that the Court felt that Swift allowed federal courts to make unconstitutional modifications of the substantive law of a state.

Initially, his dissents " were only when, with Hughes, Brandeis, Stone or Roberts — like himself, lawyers of deep experience — he could not go along with what he considered the judge-made amendments of the Constitution implicit in the opinions of Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas and Frank Murphy, whom Roosevelt had sent to follow Black and Reed on the court.

The specific term " Necessary and Proper Clause " was coined in 1926 by Associate Justice Louis Brandeis, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court decision in Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U. S. 581 ( 1926 ), wherein the court upheld a law restricting medicinal use of alcohol as a necessary and proper exercise of power under the 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition in the United States.

Lewis suffered sudden cardiac death on the basketball court at an off-season practice on July 27, 1993 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

While serving as chief justice, Gray hired Louis D. Brandeis as a clerk, becoming the first justice of that court to hire a clerk.

* The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, established at Brandeis University in 1993, will soon cease to exist unless Congress and university officials act to save it.

He was on a scholarship at Brandeis University when the 1989 Tiananmen incident occurred.

The same effect was happening in the United States, when states were competing to attract firms to incorporate in their state — competition described by some at the time as " race to efficiency ", and others, such as Justice Louis Brandeis, as the " race to the bottom ".

As it was it would not be for another 62 years until 1916 when Louis Brandeis became the first Jewish justice of the Supreme Court following his nomination by President Woodrow Wilson.

The doors opened again in 1960, when Brandeis University was sufficiently impressed with his abilities and achievements to offer him an assistant professorship in the history department.

This remarkable talent received tangible acknowledgment many years after his death, when a former student ( William Friedman, Brandeis ' 65 ), raised $ 2. 5 million to endow the Ray Ginger Professorship of History at the university.

Despise the fears of progressives, Stone quickly joined the Court's " liberal faction ," frequently dissenting with Justices Holmes and Brandeis and later, Cardozo when he took Holmes ' seat, from the majority's narrow view of the police powers of the state.

Lentz achieved notability as a musician while a student at Brandeis University, when he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966.

In 2008, Appiah was recognized for his contributions to racial, ethnic, and religious relations when Brandeis University awarded him the first Joseph B. and Toby Glitter Prize.

He then moved to Brandeis University in Massachusetts, where he served as athletic director from 1949 to 1961 and head football coach from 1951 to 1959, when the football team was disbanded as part of a cost-cutting effort.

He became a leader of the B ' nai Brith Hillel Foundation, founded at the University of Illinois, serving as director of the Illinois sector from 1929 to 1933, national director of the Hillel Foundation from 1933 to 1947, and chairman of the National Hillel Commission from 1948 to 1955, when he retired to become president of Brandeis University.

In early 1939, when Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was about to retire, some of Allen's supporters tried to persuade President Roosevelt that it was time to name a woman, and they reminded the president that Judge Allen was extremely qualified.