Louis Heilprin Pollak (December 7, 1922 – May 8, 2012) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served on the faculty of Yale Law School and was dean from 1965 to 1970, served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was dean from 1974 to 1978. In 2000, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Louis Heilprin Pollak
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
Born 1922 in New York, NY
Died 2012 in West Mount Airy, PA
FJC ID: 1904
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 37/year
Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 1978–2012
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
Member · 1983–1992
- Yale Law SchoolFaculty · 1955–1974
- ↳dean · 1965–1970
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers, New York CityAssistant counsel · 1954–1955
U.S. Department of StateAttorney and special assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup · 1951–1953- Private practice, New York City1949–1951
Law clerk , Hon. Wiley B. Rutledge · 1948–1949
U.S. Army1943–1946
Appointments
1978–2012 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1948- Harvard UniversityB.A. · 1943