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Aug 26, 2022 · “Democratic Justice,” Brad Snyder’s comprehensive biography of Felix Frankfurter, aims to reassess the complicated legacy of the judge and political adviser.
Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which he was an advocate of judicial restraint.
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Aug 26, 2022 · Brad Snyder’s new book, Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment, is the first work to grapple with his life and legacy in full.
Dec 14, 2022 · In his definitive new biography of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who served on the bench from 1939 to 1962, Georgetown Law professor Brad Snyder reevaluates the conventional story of Frankfurter’s progression from liberal advocate to conservative jurist.
Felix Frankfurter, LL.B. 1906, LL.D. ’56, was a titan as a Harvard Law School professor for 25 years in the early twentieth century. For the next 23 years, until he retired in 1962, he was often a cause of confusion as a Supreme Court justice.
Felix Frankfurter was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939–62), a noted scholar and teacher of law, who was in his time the high court’s leading exponent of the doctrine of judicial self-restraint.
Feb 10, 2023 · Georgetown Law Professor Brad Snyder’s new biography of Frankfurter, Democratic Justice, 1 tells the story of a restless truth-seeker. Snyder expertly illustrates how Frankfurter never wavered in his deep commitment to democracy and how Frankfurter’s belief in objective truth informed his democratic convictions.
