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He applied successfully to Harvard Law School, where he excelled academically and socially. He became lifelong friends with Walter Lippmann and Horace Kallen, became an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated first in his class with one of the best academic records since Louis Brandeis.
Aug 12, 2022 · August 12, 2022. In September 1953, with the Supreme Court only months away from rehearing oral argument in Brown v. Board of Education, Justice Felix Frankfurter received word while vacationing...
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Frankfurter was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1902 and Harvard Law School in 1906. Upon graduation, he took a position with a New York law firm, but within the year he was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Feb 10, 2023 · Frankfurter immigrated to America from Vienna as a boy without knowing any English, 2 graduated first in his Harvard Law School class, 3 fought for the constitutionality of minimum wage and maximum hours labor laws, 4 appointed students to Supreme Court clerkships and other governmental posts while a Harvard Law professor, 5 played an influentia...
Read about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter got to the Court, including his education, career, and confirmation process.
Justice Felix Frankfurter had an illustrious career before his time on the Supreme Court. He was an Austrian immigrant who went on to teach at Harvard and help organize the American Civil Liberties Union.
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.
