«Книжная полка Л. Д. Брандайза»: историография жизни и деятельности судьи верховного суда США

Leonid G.  Berlyavsky

Authors

Leonid G. Berlyavsky Rostov State Economic University RINH https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7460-5529

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the historiography of the life and activity of Louis D. Brandeis, one of the brightest figures of the American constitutional justice. He has acquired high professional qualification in the process of mastering the legal profession in the context of reforming the teaching of law under the leadership of K. Langdell at Harvard Law School. Founded by L. Brandeis and S. Warren in Boston, a lawyers’ partnership soon became one of the first multifunctional law firms in the US. The partners were not only engaged in practice and legal activity in the public interests (pro bono), but also actively studied and developed the constitutional and legal science. Their article “The Right to Privacy” (1890) provided for the first time a theoretical justification of one of the fundamental personal human rights, namely the right to privacy. L. Brandeis managed to become successful in upholding the social and labour rights of workers that have not been directly established by the US Constitution. The model of Brandeis’s conclusion (Brandeis brief) became an essential contribution to the US procedural law. Brandeis supported the concept of a “living Constitution” that is based on the idea of social changes, evolution of a legal system and of a fundamental law. An entire library of scholarly and biographical literature studies the life and activity of Brandeis in American jurisprudence. In the American constitutional law, the scholarly literature devoted to this lawyer is called a “Brandeis’s bookshelf”. Few American lawyers have been honored with such an attention of scientists as Brandeis. The publications written directly by Brandeis are rather interesting, however insufficiently studied and little known to the Russian legal scientists.

Keywords:

American jurisprudence, constitutional legal concept, Louis D. Brandeis, social and labour rights, concept of a “living Constitution, “bookshelf of Brandeis”

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Author Biography

Leonid G. Berlyavsky, Rostov State Economic University RINH

doctor of historical sciences, candidate of the legal sciences, professor of the Department of the Constitutional and Municipal Law

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