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The Brandeis Brief was a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely not on pure legal theory
Question of law

In jurisprudence, a question of law is a question which must be answered by applying relevant legal principles, by an interpretation of the law....
, but also on analysis of factual
Question of fact

In law, a question of fact is a question which must be answered by reference to facts and evidence , and inferences arising from those facts. Such a question is distinct from a question of law, which must be answered by applying relevant legal principles....
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Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa is a multinational Non-governmental organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Robert Sargent Shriver III and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign....
. It is named after litigator Louis Brandeis
Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon....
, who collected empirical data from hundreds of sources in the 1908 case Muller v. Oregon
Muller v. Oregon

Muller v. Oregon, , was a Landmark case decision in Supreme Court of the United States history, as it relates to both sex discrimination and usage and labor laws....
.

The Brandeis Brief changed the direction of the Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 and of U.S. law. The Brandeis Brief became the model for future Supreme Court presentations in cases affecting the health or welfare of classes of individuals.






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The Brandeis Brief was a pioneering legal brief that was the first in United States legal history to rely not on pure legal theory
Question of law

In jurisprudence, a question of law is a question which must be answered by applying relevant legal principles, by an interpretation of the law....
, but also on analysis of factual
Question of fact

In law, a question of fact is a question which must be answered by reference to facts and evidence , and inferences arising from those facts. Such a question is distinct from a question of law, which must be answered by applying relevant legal principles....
 data
DATA

Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa is a multinational Non-governmental organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Robert Sargent Shriver III and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign....
. It is named after litigator Louis Brandeis
Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon....
, who collected empirical data from hundreds of sources in the 1908 case Muller v. Oregon
Muller v. Oregon

Muller v. Oregon, , was a Landmark case decision in Supreme Court of the United States history, as it relates to both sex discrimination and usage and labor laws....
.

The Brandeis Brief changed the direction of the Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 and of U.S. law. The Brandeis Brief became the model for future Supreme Court presentations in cases affecting the health or welfare of classes of individuals. This model was later successfully used in Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education

'Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka', Case citation , was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v....
 to demonstrate the harmful psychological effects of segregated education on African-American children.

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    Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

    The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law is the law school of the University of Louisville. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who served on the Supreme Court of the United States, was the school's patron, and he bequeathed his papers to the school....
     (University of Louisville
    University of Louisville

    The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky, United States. It is one of the oldest chartered universities west of the Allegheny Mountains and is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metropolitan Research University"....
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