Louis Brandeis

Louis Brandeis was a reforming lawyer known as the people's attorney before becoming the first Jewish justice of the US Supreme Court in 1916. In Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It he attacked how a small circle of financiers used depositors' money to control industry. He championed antitrust, competition, and what he called the curse of bigness, arguing that concentrated corporate and financial power threatened democracy. On the Court he wrote influential opinions on privacy, free speech, and the limits of corporate power. His thinking remains a touchstone for critics of monopoly and finance.