Oral history interview with Herbert Wechsler, 1982
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Herbert Wechsler, 1982
Abstract
Childhood 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
Government executives--United States; Law teachers; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949; Law--Study and teaching; Criminal law; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; New York (State) Politics and government 1865-1950; Wechsler, Herbert, 1909-2000; Columbian University. Law School; United States. Supreme Court; United States. Dept. of Justice
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1982
Physical Description
360 pages
Note (Biographical)
Law professor
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit