Alvin Benjamin Rubin

Alvin Benjamin Rubin (March 13, 1920 – June 11, 1991) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Education and career Born in Alexandria in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana, Rubin received a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1941 and a Bachelor of Laws from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in 1942. He was in private practice in Louisiana from 1946 to 1966. He started teaching as an adjunct law professor the year after he graduated from law school and taught continuously at LSU for over 46 years, in addition to lecturing at Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago, and many other law schools