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Fordham Letter from Judge Louis H. Pollak
No full textLetter from Louis H. Pollak to Jefferson B. Fordham
A Conversation with Louis H. Pollak
No full textLOUIS 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
Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, 1981, 2 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728375
Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, 1981, 1 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728368
Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, 1981, 3 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728377
Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, in front of a tree, 1981 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728421
Portrait of Louis Nowra, author, leaning on a railing, 1981 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Part of the collection: Portraits of Louis Nowra, author, 1981.; Inscriptions: "Louis Nowra 5/2/81, H de Berg"--In ink on verso of print.; Condition: Soiled, scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4728382
Louis H. Pollak, Generosity, and Subtlety: A Student\u27s View
No full textJudge Pollak, Judge Louis H. Pollak . . . it fits. Lou was made to be a judge and all those who care about law and justice will benefit from his appointment. There are at least as many ways of describing the mix of qualities that make him suited for judicial office, as there are people writing for this issue. Some will point to those skills that were demonstrated in Lou Pollak as Dean, others in Lou Pollak as advocate. I would like to emphasize some of the traits that I appreciated in Lou as teacher and colleague. Specifically, I would focus on his generosity and on his subtlety of mind. Lou\u27s generosity is true generosity . . . of spirit. It is the generosity of the ascetic who gives of himself, not of the bon vivant who gives the leavings of what he has in surfeit. It is the generosity of the teacher who respects—even too much—his students\u27 ideas. It is, therefore, the generosity of the judge who will hear the needs and hopes of those before him, however preoccupied or busy he should, objectively speaking, be. There is an anecdote that Lou tells of himself . . . and me . . . that I would like to share with you, because it demonstrates that generosity of spirit
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