Bernard Flexner

Bernard Flexner (February 24, 1865 – May 3, 1945) was a New York lawyer and a prominent member of the Zionist Organization of America.

Early life Flexner was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a family that immigrated from Europe in the early 1860s. His father was Morris Flexner and his mother Esther Abraham. Among his siblings were Abraham Flexner, author of the Flexner Report on medical education in the United States and founder of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Simon Flexner, first director of the Rockefeller Institute.

Education

He was educated in the Louisville public schools, earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Louisville, and later continued his legal studies in the Law Department of the University of Virginia.

He was one of the founders of the Council on Foreign Relations.

His papers are held in the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University.

Writings Due Process of Law, University of Louisville Law School, 1898. A Decade of the Juvenile Court, 1910. Juvenile Courts and Probation, Century Company, 1914. The Rights to a Jewish Home Land, The Nation, October 2, 1929. The Child. The Family, and the Court, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929. The Fight on the Securities Act, 1934. Mr. Justice Brandeis and the University of Louisville, University of Louisville, 1938.