A Conversation with Louis H. Pollak

LOUIS H. POLLAK (1922 – 2012) served as dean of the Yale Law Schoolfrom 1965 to 1970. He received an A.B. from Harvard Collegein 1943, an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1948, and clerked forWiley Rutledge at the U.S. Supreme Court. He joined the YaleLaw School faculty in 1955. In 1974, Pollak joined the facultyat the University of Pennsylvania Law School, serving as deanfrom 1975 until 1978, when he was appointed Judge of the U.S.District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Pollak published widely in the area of Constitutional Law andserved on the board of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylsohs/1006/thumbnail.jp