doi:10.7916/d8-r4ge-1222Oral history interview with Herbert Wechsler, 1982Wechsler, Herbert, 1909-2000oral historiesmixed materialGovernment executives--United StatesLaw teachersJapanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949Law--Study and teachingCriminal lawUnited States Politics and government 1933-1945New York (State) Politics and government 1865-1950Wechsler, Herbert, 1909-2000Columbian University. Law SchoolUnited States. Supreme CourtUnited States. Dept. of JusticeChildhood in Bronx, New York, N.Y.; Columbia Law School, 1928-1931; clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harlan Stone, 1932-1933; Associate professor, Columbia Law School, 1933-1938; Assistant Attorney General, New York, 1938-1940; 1938 New York Constitutional Convention; Assistant Attorney General, War Divivsion, 1944-1946; argued Japanese internment before Supreme Court; assistant to Francis Biddle at Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1946; American Law Institute, 1952, director, 1962; development of model penal code; first amendment cases; author of law texts