Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.”
— Louis D. Brandeis (1932)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
- Context = Lochner decision (1905)
- Context = National Consumers League (Florence Kelley)
- The “Brandeis brief” in Muller contained “only two scant pages of ‘law’ and over a hundred of extralegal sources” (Mason in Garraty, 199)
Discussion Questions
- Why was the “Brandeis brief” such a significant development in American law?
- What are some of the connections between the Muller case in 1908 and the Brown case in 1954?
Schechter Poultry v. US (1935)
