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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.
Dec 11, 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.
professor at Columbia University for sixty-three years, Walter Gellhorn was a towering figure in the American academy and in American public life, of world renown, esteem, admiration, affection, and friendship.
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.
Abstract. 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. Yet it is impossible to recall any expectations I might have had about my relationship with him at the time.
