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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.
Walter Gellhorn left a deep mark in legal education, and his fame was primarily in the academy. But he also served the public, in war and in peace, in office and as citizen, beginning as law secretary to Justice Harlan F. Stone of the United States Supreme Court.
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.
Ms Coll\Gellhorn Gellhorn, Walter, 1906-Papers, ca. 1930-1992. 157 linear ft. (ca. 123,700 items in 376 boxes). Biography: Attorney (Columbia University LL.B., 1931), legal scholar, and professor of law at Columbia School of Law from 1933 to 1973. Professor Gellhorn died in 1995.