Kate Wallach

Kate Wallach (1905–1979) was a legal scholar and librarian in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, known for her work Research in Louisiana Law.

Education Kate Wallach was a Jewish woman born to Ludwig Wallach and Berta Wallach (née Schönbeck) on May 17, 1905, in Krefeld, Germany.

In 1938, Wallach enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she graduated with an LL.B in just two years. She was also admitted to the Order of the Coif, was an honorary editor of the Wisconsin Law Review, and was in the Kappa Beta Phi sorority. In 1942 Wallach received a B.A. In library science. She passed the bar exam in 1942 and was admitted at court.

Career In 1935, Wallach obtained a temporary visa to emigrate to the United States, and worked as a secretary and taught German. After being rejected from studying law, she worked without pay for a patent lawyer to learn about the American legal system. She moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1937 to work as a secretary for Harry Shulman at Yale University. After completing law school, Wallach worked as a cataloger at the law library at the University of Michigan.

Wallach was a member of the Soroptimists, and became director in 1951 and president in 1954. Wallach died on December 27, 1979, due to cancer.

Selected works "Nichtige Kündigungen nach deutschem Arbeitsrecht. Ein Beitrag zur Lehre vom Bestandsschutz des Arbeitsvertrages." Diss. Köln: 1931 "Designations of Super-employer Unit under National Labor Relations Act." Wisconsin Law Review (1940): 556–567 "Postwar Problems of the Law Library Equipment and Quarters." Law Library Journal (1948): 329–334 Manual for Legal Bibliography. Baton Rouge: 1951; Oil and Gas Bibliography. Baton Rouge: 1953 Bibliographical History of Louisiana Civil Law Sources. Baton Rouge: 1955 Research in Louisiana Law. Baton Rouge: 1958 Union List of Basic Latin American Legal Materials. South Hackensack, New Jersey: 1971 Louisiana American Legal Research Manual. Baton Rouge: 1972 Co-author of Comparative Coastal Zone Management. Baton Rouge: 1977.