Louis Heilprin Pollak

Personal

Birthday: 
12/7/1922
Birthplace: 
New York, NY
Date of Death: 
5/8/2012
Place of Death: 
West Mount Airy, PA
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

U.S. Army, 1943-1946
Law clerk, Hon. Wiley B. Rutledge, Supreme Court of the United States, 1948-1949
Private practice, New York City, 1949-1951
Attorney and special assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup, U.S. Department of State, 1951-1953
Assistant counsel, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, New York City, 1954-1955
Faculty, Yale Law School, 1955-1974; dean, 1965-1970
Faculty, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1974-1978; dean, 1975-1978

Education

Name of School: 
Harvard University
Degree: 
B.A.
Degree Year: 
1943
Name of School - Second: 

Yale University Law School

Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Yale Law School, is one of the world's premier law schools. It offers an unmatched environment of excellence and educational intimacy in the form of world renowned faculty, small classes, limitless opportunities for clinical training, and strong encouragement of public service. Small by design, our impact on the world is measured by its accomplished graduates and its ongoing scholarship and outreach through 17 centers and projects.

Degree - Second: 
LL.B.
Degree Year - Second: 
1948

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Court Name: 

Pennsylvania Eastern District Court

President Nominating: 
Jimmy Carter
Party Affiliation of President: 
Democratic
Commission Date: 
7/12/1978
Retirement from Active Service: 
1/1/1991
Termination Date: 
5/8/2012
Termination Reason: 
Death