BRANDEIS, LOUIS DEMBITZ ), American jurist, was born in Louisville (Ky.) on Nov. 13, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and at the An nen Realschule, Dresden, Germany. He graduated from the Har vard law school in 1877, was admitted to the bar in 1878, and practised in Boston from 1879 to 1916. He was much interested in labour legislation, acting as counsel for the people in cases con cerning the power of the government to fix hours of labour and a minimum wage in several states. In 1910 he was counsel in the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation in Congress; in was coun sel for the shippers before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the advance freight-rate case; and in 1913-14 was special coun sel for the commission in the second advance freight-rate case. In Jan. 1916 he was appointed by President Wilson associate justice of the Supreme Court, being the first Jew to attain this position. He was the author of Other People's Money (1914) and Business as a Profession (Boston, 1914), besides numerous articles on public franchise, business efficiency, Zionism, Jewish problems, labour and trusts.