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Email: lpollak@law.upenn.edu
Bio
Pollak was born in New York City in 1922 and is a graduate of Harvard College (1943) and Yale Law School (1948). Pollak resides in Philadelphia with his wife, the former Katherine Weiss, to whom he has been married-since 1952. The Pollaks have five daughters, six granddaughters and two grandsons.
Pollak's professional career is as follows: In 1948-49, after graduating from law school, Pollak clerked for Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. In the next five years, he served as an associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; special assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup; and Assistant Counsel of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In 1955 Pollak was appointed to the Yale law faculty where he remained until 1974, serving as Dean from 1965 to 1970. From 1974 to 1978, Pollak was a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, serving as Dean from 1975 to 1978. In 1978, Pollak was appointed to his current position as Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. On becoming a judge, Pollak retired from the full-time Penn faculty, but he continues to teach a seminar at Penn as an adjunct professor.
Constitutional law has been the principal focus of Pollak's teaching and scholarly interests. From 1950 until he became a judge in 1978, Pollak was associated, first as a volunteer lawyer and later as a board member and vice-president, with the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund. Pollak has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1978.
Representative Publications
Remarks on the 200th Anniversary of the Accession of John Marshall as Chief Justice, 27 J. OF SUP. CT. HISTORY 216 (2002).
Judging Under the Aegis of the Third Article, 51 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 399 (2002). Professional Attitude, A.B.A. JOURNAL (Aug. 1998, P. 66).
Philadelphia Lawyer: A Cautionary Tale, 145 U. PA. L. REV. 495 (1997).
Criticizing Judges, 79 JUDICATURE 299 (1996).
Perspectives on a Divided Court, 25 CAPITAL U. L. REV. 285 (1996).
The Republic for Which it Stands, 24 LAND & WATER L. REV. 565 (1989).
Advocating Civil Liberties: A Young Lawyer Before the Old Court, 17 HARV. CIV. RIGHTS CIV. LIB. L. REV. 3 (1982).
The Constitution as an Experiment, 123 U. PA. L. REV. 1318 (1975).
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE SUPREME COURT: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY (1966).
Public Prayers in Public Schools, 77 HARV. L. REV. 62 (1963).
Racial Discrimination and Judicial Integrity: A Reply to Professor Wechsler, 108 U. PA. L. REV. 1 (1959).
Mr. Justice Frankfurter: Judgment and the Fourteenth Amendment, 67 YALE L. J. 304 (1957).
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