American jurist and writer Benjamin Nathan Cardozo served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1932 until his death in 1938.
People remember his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century in addition to his philosophy and vivid prose style. He earlier delivered many of his landmark decisions during his eighteen-year tenure from 1915 to 1932 on the court of appeals, the highest court of state of New York.
