Louis Lusky (May 15, 1915 – January 4, 2001) was an American

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. Considered a pioneer in the field of civil rights law, he was the Betts Professor of Law at

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

, where he taught from 1963 to 1986. A native of

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, Lusky graduated from

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in 1931. He later attended the

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and

and graduated as the highest-ranking member of the Columbia Law School Class of 1937. Lusky began his legal career as the clerk for

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Justice

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. During that time he helped draft the famous "Footnote 4" of ''

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'' (1938). 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

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Lusky served as an operations analyst for the

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in England and then returned to his hometown. He was in private practice there and in New York City for 16 years before joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 1963. 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''.

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"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
''Our Nine Tribunes: the Supreme Court in Modern America''
Louis Lusky, Praeger, 1993,
''National Policy and the Dead Hand: The Race-Conscious Trust''
Louis Lusky, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1973
''Racial Discrimination and the Federal Law: A Problem in Nullification''
Louis Lusky, 1965
''Program in U.S. Law for Chinese Scholars: Fundamentals of U.S. Constitutional Law''
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