Walter Gellhorn

Background

Gellhorn, Walter was born on September 18, 1906 in St. Louis. Son of George and Edna (Fischel) Gellhorn.

Education

AB, Amherst College, 1927. Doctor of Humane Letters, Amherst College, 1952. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia University, 1931.

Doctor of Laws, University Pennsylvania, 1963. Doctor of Laws, University Akron, 1968. Doctor of Laws, Boston University, 1971.

Doctor of Laws, University Louvain, Belgium, 1972. Doctor of Laws, Rutgers University, 1973. Doctor of Laws, Columbia University, 1976.

Doctor of Laws, Georgetown University, 1976. Doctor of Laws, Washington University, 1977. Doctor of Laws, Capital University, 1980.

Career

Law secretary, Supreme Court of the United States Court Justice Harlan F. Stone, 1931-1932; attorney, Office of Solicitor General, unites states department Justice, 1932-1933; member of faculty, Columbia University, since 1933; Betts professor of law, Columbia University, 1957-1973; University professor, Columbia University, 1973-1974; University professor emeritus, Columbia University, since 1974. Regional attorney United States Social Security Board, 1936-1938. Director attorney general's commission on administrative procedure, 1939-1941.

Assistant general counsel and regionalatty. OPA, 1942-1943; special assistant to secretary of interior, 1943-1944. Vice chairman National War Labor Board, 2d region, 1944-1945, chairman, 1945.

Member county Administrv. Conference United States, 1961-1962, 68-. Visiting professor U. Manchester, England, 1951, Tokyo U., 1958.

James Schouler lecturer Johns Hopkins University, 1941. Edward Douglass White lecturer Louisiana State University, 1956. Oliver Wendell Holmeslectr.

Harvard University, 1966.

Achievements

• Walter Gellhorn has been listed as a notable Law and political science educator, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • When Americans Complain: Governmental Grievance Procedures (O.W.Holmes Lecture)

    (Professor Gellhorn approaches his task of evaluation from...)

  • { FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS } by Gellhorn, Walter (AUTHOR) Apr-24-1972 Hardcover

    (Federal Administrative Proceedings Federal Administrative...)

  • Federal Administrative Proceedings:

    (Format Hardcover Subject The Executive Branch General Mis...)

  • Children & Families In The Courts Of New York City

    (A Report by a Special Committee of the Association of the...)

  • Administrative Law Cases and Comments 1993 Supplement

    (Book by Gellhorn, Walter)

  • Ombudsmen and Others: Citizens' Protectors in Nine Countries

    (Book by Gellhorn, Walter)

  • Individual Freedom and Governmental Restraints:

    (Book by Gellhorn, Walter)

  • Ombudsmen and Others: Citizens's Protectors in Nine Countries
  • Federal Administrative Proceedings
  • Ombudsmen and others citzens'' protectors in nine countries
  • Ombudsmen and others: citizens' protectors in nine countries
  • The sectarian college and the public purse;: Fordham--a case study,

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Philosophical Society (council 1970-1973, vice president 1983-1986), Association American Law Schools (president 1963), National Academy Public Administration, Japan Academy (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Phi (president 1955-1958), Phi Delta Phi.

Connections

Married Kitty Minus, June 1, 1932. Children– Ellis, Gay.

Father:

George Gellhorn

Mother:

Edna (Fischel) Gellhorn

Spouse:

Kitty Minus

child:

Ellis Gellhorn

child:

Gay Gellhorn