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...Carswell to judicial literature. Harvard Law Dean Derek C. Bok, seeking gentle words, says that "the public record of Judge Carswell's career and accomplishments clearly does not place him within even an ample list of the nation's more distinguished jurists." Yale Law Dean Louis H. Pollak states it more bluntly, claiming that Carswell "presents more slender credentials than any nominee for the Supreme Court put forth in this century...
...legal counsel. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Carswell, ruling that at least a hearing on the action should have been held. Yet later on when an identical case came before him, Carswell dismissed the application -again without a hearing. "In judging a judge," contends Pollak, "one must in fairness judge him in the light of the law as it stood at the time he decided." Pollak finds that "there is very little way of explaining" Carswell's repetition of his judicial error...
...testimony before the committee last week. Louis H. Pollak, dean of the Yale Law School, said the candidate appeared to possess "more slender credentials than any nominee in this century...
Torn between seeking law degrees as tickets to success in the white world and proving that they care primarily about the ghetto's submerged people, black students are troubling law schools more and more. Yet more and more professors, like Yale's Law Dean Louis Pollak, see that trouble as a challenge. "The law school is an angrier place now," says Pollak, "but it is performing a more honest role and, professionally, a more fulfilling...
...Honorable Karl Schiller, Federal Minister for Economics, Federal Republic of Germany, will deliver the Gustav Pollak Lecture at 4:30 p.m. today in the auditorium of Littauer Center...