Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Herbert Wechsler, 1982
Creator: | Wechsler, Herbert, 1909-2000 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) transcript: 360 pages | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLaw professor
Scope and ContentsChildhood 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
Subjects- Columbian University. Law School.
- Criminal law.
- Government executives--United States--Interviews.
- Interviews.
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
- Law--Study and teaching.
- Law teachers--Interviews.
- Miller, Geoffrey, interviewer.
- New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- Oral histories (literary works)
- Silber, Norman Isaac, interviewer.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States. Dept. of Justice.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Wechsler, Herbert, 1909-2000--Interviews.
Access ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985
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