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The group, the University Consortium for Research on North America, consists of professors and graduate students from Harvard. Brandeis, and Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and operates out of Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA).
"We're not just using this grant to peek in on Canada." Eliot J. Feldman, a professor at Brandeis and director of the consortium, said yesterday. "It's our intent to establish an American-based expertise in this area," he added.
In 1927, in a scathing article for the Atlantic Monthly, Frankfurter argued the need for criminal justice reform after Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death. In 1933 he engineered John Maynard Keynes' open letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New York Times, urging the President...
Moreover, Frankfurter used the Harvard Law Review to lend credibility to New Deal legislation instigated by his mentor. During the '30s, Brandeis met regularly with Thomas G. Corcoran and Benjamin V. Cohen, F.D.R.'s legislative drafting team. According to Murphy, Together, Corcoran and Cohen drafted Brandeis' proposals...
Brandeis could also assert his power directly. Murphy unearths a rift that developed early in the New Deal. The Brain Trust, composed of Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolf Berle,posed attacking the Depression with big Government and monopolistic enterprises. This ran contrary to the Brandeis )ias against a strong...