Benjamin H. Pollak is an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau, where he enforces laws that protect New Yorkers from discrimination in education, housing, employment, law enforcement, public accommodations, and other areas. Before joining the Attorney General’s office, he practiced appellate law.

 

Ben holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has taught at New York University, the University of Michigan, and Michigan State University. His scholarship has appeared in the Law and History Review, American Jewish History, and Criticism.