Reminiscences of Herbert Wechsler : oral history, 1982.

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Reminiscences of Herbert Wechsler : oral history, 1982.

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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.

Transcript: 360 leaves.Tape: 3 reels/ 9 cassettes.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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