Presented
by the University of Louisville’s Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute in
collaboration with the Filson Historical Society.
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.