Theodore Sedgwick Distinguished Lecture Series – Supreme Court Justice Louis. D. Brandeis of Louisville

Presented by the University of Louisville’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute in collaboration with the Filson Historical Society. A reception will be held from 4:30-5:25 p.m. with the program following at 5:30 p.m.

Louis D. Brandeis spent his professional life in Boston and Washington, D.C. Yet, he remained dedicated to his birthplace Louisville, which he viewed as a laboratory to test and develop his theory of democracy.

While most remembered for his brilliance on the Supreme Court, Brandeis came to public prominence in Boston by exposing public corruption. Brandeis came to national prominence by exposing the lies of President William Howard Taft to cover-up misconduct in his Administration that undermined the nascent conservation movement, leading to Brandeis’ appointment to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson.

Mark L. Wolf, Chair of Integrity Initiatives International, is a Senior United States District Judge and the former Chief Judge of the District of Massachusetts. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught a seminar on Combating Corruption Internationally. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Law School.