The program will air on PBS on January 8, 2008 at 9:00 p.m.
See, a summary discription of the episode by clicking here.
For those who might not know this - the University of Louisville School of Law was named after him and is officially the "Brandeis School of Law" and houses his papers and the campus serves as the final resting place for his remains.
In spite of these gifts to the school, there is no funded chair in his honor, and there does not appeal to be a scholar in residence dedicated to those papers. [Please note, the same goes for the John Marshall Harlan papers too!].
About Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis was born on November 13, 1856, in Louisville, Kentucky.
His earliest memories are of his mother serving food to Union soldiers in his front yard. He left Louisville at age 16 and later graduated from Harvard Law School, had a brilliant career as a practicing lawyer and advocate on behalf of numerous public causes, and became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1916, at age 60. He resigned from the Court in 1939, and died in 1941.
He chose the University of Louisville's School of Law as the final resting place for his remains. Although he never returned to live in Louisville, family members and their descendants remained in Louisville, and he continued to be connected to his family, to Louisville, to the University of Louisville, and to the Law School. The Law School was renamed the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 1997.
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