{{short description|American legal scholar}} {{Infobox academic | name = Louis Lusky | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|05|15}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|01|04|1915|05|15}} | death_place = | occupation = | period = | title = Professor | education = Louisville Male High School | alma_mater = University of Louisville<br>Columbia University | discipline = Law | sub_discipline = Civil Rights | workplaces = Columbia Law School }} '''Louis Lusky''' (May 15, 1915 – January 4, 2001) was an American legal scholar. Considered a pioneer in the field of civil rights law, he was the Betts Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he taught from 1963 to 1986.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/1123767|jstor = 1123767|last1 = Greenberg|first1 = Jack|title = Louis Lusky|journal = Columbia Law Review|year = 2001|volume = 101|issue = 5|pages = 977–981}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aUaTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Louis+Lusky%22+betts Our Nine Tribunes: The Supreme Court in Modern America]</ref>
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Lusky graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1931. He later attended the University of Louisville<ref>[http://nyx.uky.edu/oh/render.php?cachefile=2006OH213_AB22_Lusky_access.xml Interview with Louis Lusky, April 20, 1999] Retrieved June 25, 2013.</ref> and Columbia Law School and graduated as the highest-ranking member of the Columbia Law School Class of 1937.<ref name="jstor.org">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/1123770|jstor = 1123770|last1 = Rosenthal|first1 = Albert J.|title = Louis Lusky--An Outstanding Scholar and a Dedicated Crusader for Justice|journal = Columbia Law Review|year = 2001|volume = 101|issue = 5|pages = 986–989}}</ref> Lusky began his legal career as the clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.<ref name="jstor.org"/> During that time he helped draft the famous "Footnote 4" of ''United States v. Carolene Products Co.'' (1938).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lusky |first=Louis |year=1982 |title=Footnote Redux: A ''Carolene Products'' Reminiscence |journal=Columbia Law Review |volume=82 |issue=6 |pages=1093–1109 |doi=10.2307/1122160|jstor= 1122160 }}</ref> The footnote asserts that the Supreme Court might adopt a higher level of judicial scrutiny in matters concerning noneconomic regulation, which has been applied in cases involving the protection of the integrity of the political process, particularly those involving religious, national, or racial minorities where prejudice might be operative.
During World War II Lusky served as an operations analyst for the Eighth Air Force in England and then returned to his hometown. He was in private practice there and in New York City<ref>{{cite book|first=William M. |last= Wiecek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaAivaq6zVAC&pg=PA120 |title=The History of the Supreme Court of the United States|date= 23 January 2006|page=120|isbn= 9780521848206}}</ref> for 16 years before joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 1963.<ref name="google.com">{{cite book|last=Luksy |first=Louis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUaTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Louis+Lusky%22+betts|title=Our Nine Tribunes: The Supreme Court in Modern America|year=1993|page=214|isbn=9780275944636}}</ref> He authored many articles on constitutional law, and the book ''By What Right?: A Commentary on the Supreme Court's Power to Revise the Constitution''.<ref name="google.com"/>
== See also == * List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9)
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal |last=Greenberg |first=Jack |year=2001 |title=In memoriam: Louis Lusky |journal=Columbia Law Review |volume=101 |issue=5 |pages=977–981 |publisher=Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.|jstor= 1123767 }} *{{cite journal |last=Rosenthal |first=Albert J. |year=2001 |title=Louis Lusky—An Outstanding Scholar and a Dedicated Crusader for Justice |journal=Columbia Law Review |volume=101 |issue=5 |pages=986–989 |publisher=Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.|jstor= 1123770 }}
==External links== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=jYxAAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Louis+Lusky%22 "By what right?: A Commentary on the Supreme Court's Power to Revise the Constitution"], Volume 18, Issue 2 of William and Mary law review, Louis Lusky, Michie Co., 1975 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=b6CRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Louis+Lusky%22 ''Our Nine Tribunes: the Supreme Court in Modern America''], Louis Lusky, Praeger, 1993, {{ISBN|0-275-94463-8}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=dN0_AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Louis+Lusky%22 ''National Policy and the Dead Hand: The Race-Conscious Trust''], Louis Lusky, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1973 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=05u3HAAACAAJ&q=%22Louis+Lusky%22 ''Racial Discrimination and the Federal Law: A Problem in Nullification''], Louis Lusky, 1965 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=jm5lHwAACAAJ&q=%22Louis+Lusky%22 ''Program in U.S. Law for Chinese Scholars: Fundamentals of U.S. Constitutional Law''], Louis Lusky, Columbia University School of Law, 1981
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