Louis Brandeis - Namesake Institutions

Namesake Institutions

  • Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Several awards given at the school are named in his honor. A collection of his personal papers is available at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis University.
  • The University of Louisville's Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. The school's principal law review publication was named the Brandeis Law Journal until it was renamed in 2007. The law school's Louis D. Brandeis Society awards the Brandeis Medal.
  • The Brandeis Law Journal, one of the country’s few undergraduate law publications, launched in 2009.
  • The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization established in Washington, D.C. to combat antisemitism in higher education.
  • Kibbutz Ein Hashofet (Hebrew: עין השופט) in Israel, founded 1937. "Ein Hashofet" means "Spring of the Judge", a name chosen to honor Brandeis' Zionism.
  • Kfar Brandeis (lit: Brandeis village) is a suburb of the Israeli city of Hadera.
  • One of the buildings of Hillman Housing Corporation, a housing cooperative founded by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
  • The Brandeis School, a private Jewish day-school in Lawrence, New York.
  • Brandeis Hillel Day School, a K-8 independent Jewish school with campuses in San Francisco, CA and San Rafael, CA), named for Brandeis and Rabbi Hillel.
  • The Brandeis-Bardin Institute, in Simi Valley, near Los Angeles, a Jewish educational outreach resource.
  • The New York City Public Schools Louis D. Brandeis High School, named for the justice and dissolved in 2009, though the building, which houses several smaller educational units, is still called the Brandeis Building.
  • Louis D. Brandeis High School, in San Antonio, Texas, where the Northside Independent School District names all of its comprehensive high schools for Supreme Court Justices
  • Brandeis Elementary School in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Louis D. Brandeis AZA #932, a B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Chapter in Dallas.
  • Brandeis AZA #1519, a B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Chapter in Rockville, Maryland.
  • Brandeis AZA #1999, a B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Chapter in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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