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Walter Gellhorn. Walter Fischel Gellhorn (September 18, 1906 – December 9, 1995) was an American legal scholar and professor. Life and career. Gellhorn was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 18, 1906 [1] to suffragist Edna Fischel Gellhorn and George Gellhorn.
11 de dic. de 1995 · Walter Gellhorn, the longtime Columbia University law professor whose writings, teachings and periodic sallies into the public arena helped shape key elements of modern American law, died on...
Gellhorn, Walter (b. 18 September 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri; d. 9 December 1995 in New York City), legal scholar, author, and educator who was a major influence on the practice of administrative law and a staunch proponent of civil rights.
Walter Gellhorn of Columbia University, one of the nation's leading law authorities, champion of civil rights and pioneer in the modern study of law, died Saturday, December 9, at his home on Morningside Heights in Manhattan. He was 89.
To begin with Walter Gellhorn as a teacher, he is of the rare breed whose classes provide enjoyment and inspiration. Those who began study of the law in 1933-34 were well aware that the faculty firmament had been enhanced by a star of first magnitude. His first year course in Legislation led me to sign up for his course in
Rev. 600 (1996). Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/211. Walter Gellhorn had been a primary figure in administrative law and at Columbia for thirty-five years when I arrived here twenty-five years ago, hoping to establish a scholarly career.
Professor Gellhorn (Columbia Law School, LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) 1931) joined the Law School in 1933 after clerking for Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U.S. Supreme Court and working under Judge Thomas D. Thacher of the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office. He was at Columbia law faculty until 1995.
