Herbert Wechsler Papers, 1919-2000, bulk 1932-1995

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Series I: Education, 1928-1940

Series I: Education (4 boxes, 2 linear feet). This series contains Herbert Wechsler's notebooks on various legal subjects during his coursework as a student at Columbia's Law School. This series also contains some of Wechsler's correspondence while a clerk for Supreme Court Justice H.F. Stone.



Box 1 Folder 1 College of the City of New York Yearbook, 1928


Box 1 Folder 2 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Business Organization" Notebook, Undated


Box 1 Folder 3 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Business Organization" Notes [Inside Front Cover], Undated


Box 1 Folder 4 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Civil Procedure" Notebook, Undated


Box 1 Folder 5 Columbia Law School Coursework:" "Civil Procedure" Notes, Undated


Box 1 Folder 6 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Commercial Transactions" Notebook, Undated



Box 2 Folder 1 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Contracts" Notebook, Undated


Box 2 Folder 2 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Contracts" Notes, Undated


Box 2 Folder 3 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Criminal Law" Notebook, Undated


Box 2 Folder 4 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Evidence, Vol. I" Notes, Undated


Box 2 Folder 5 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Evidence, Vol. I" Notebook, Undated


Box 2 Folder 6 Columbia Law School Coursework-Pilpel, Harriet Fleischl: "Evidence, Vol. I" Notebook, 1935


Box 2 Folder 7 Columbia Law School Coursework-Pilpel, Harriet Fleischl: "Evidence, Vol. II" Notebook, 1935-1936


Box 2 Folder 8 Columbia Law School Coursework-Pilpel, Harriet Fleischl: "Evidence, Vol. II" Notes, 1935-1936


Box 2 Folder 9 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Evidence Vol. II" Notebook, Undated



Box 3 Folder 1 Columbia Law School Coursework-Stroock, Alan M.: "Federal Jurisdiction" Notebook [Inside Front Cover: Newspaper Clippings, 1932], Undated


Box 3 Folder 2 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Future Interests and Trusts, Vol. II" Notebook, Undated


Box 3 Folder 3 Columbia Law School Coursework: Moot Court Brief [HW with Sienna [Delahunt]], Undated


Box 3 Folder 4 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Possessory Estates" Notebook, Undated


Box 3 Folder 5 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Possessory Estates" Notes, Undated



Box 4 Folder 1 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Sales" Notebook, Undated


Box 4 Folder 2 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Security" Notebook, Undated


Box 4 Folder 3 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Security" Notes, Undated


Box 4 Folder 4 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Torts and Contracts" Notebook, Undated


Box 4 Folder 4 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Torts and Contracts" Notes [Inside Back Cover], Undated


Box 4 Folder 5 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Trade Registration" Notebook, Undated


Box 4 Folder 6 Columbia Law School Coursework: "Trade Regulation" Notes, Undated


Box 4 Folder 7 Supreme Court Clerkship-Correspondence: Gellhorn, Walter, 1931-1940


Box 4 Folder 8 Supreme Court Clerkship-Correspondence: Stone, H.F., 1931-1932

Series II: Justice Department Work, 1942-1996

Series II: United States Department of Justice (5 boxes, 2.5 linear feet). This series pertains to Herbert Wechsler's work within the Department of Justice and is broken down into four Sub-Series. The first two sub-series (AandB) include Wechsler's work as Assistant to Attorney General Francis Biddle and with the Board of Legal Examiners, respectively. The second two sub-series (CandD) relate to the International and Nuremberg Military Tribunals and Wechsler's work as an assistant to the American judges there. Of particular note is a set of correspondence pertaining to the political battle over Wechsler's nomination as Assistant Attorney General.


Sub-series A: Assistant Attorney General, 1942-1944



Box 5 Folder 1 Biographical Material and Forms, Undated , 1942 , 1944


Box 5 Folder 2 Clippings, 1944


Box 5 Folder 3 Nomination and Appointment: Congratulatory Letters, 1944


Box 5 Folder 4 Nomination and Appointment: Official Documentation, 1940-1944


Box 5 Folder 5 Nomination: Hearing, 1944


Box 5 Folder 6 Nomination: Opposition, 1944


Box 5 Folder 7 Nomination: Support, 1944


Box 5 Folder 8 Report of the Attorney General to the Congress of the United States on the Foreign Agents Registration Act, 1945


Box 5 Folder 9 Resignation, 1945


Box 5 Folder 10 Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure, 1933 , 1941-1944 , 1953-1961


Box 5 Folder 11 Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure: McNabb Case, 1942-1944


Sub-Series B: Board of Legal Examiners, 1942-1945


Box 5 Folder 12 Executive Secretary Documents, 1942


Box 5 Folder 13 Resignation, 1945


Sub-Series C: International Military Tribunal, 1945-1967



Box 6 Folder 1 Agreement, Charter, Rules, Indictment, 1945


Box 6 Folder 2 Application for Documents, 1945-1946


Box 6 Folder 3 Applications for Witnesses, 1945-1946


Box 6 Folder 4 Benes, Dr. Edvard: Wechsler memoir of Conference with, 1946


Box 6 Folder 5 Biddle, Francis: Correspondence, 1945-1946


Box 6 Folder 6 Biddle, Francis: Report to the President, 1946


Box 6 Folder 7 Birkett, Sir Norman, 1946-1967


Box 6 Folder 8 Clippings, 1945-1946


Box 6 Folder 9 Correspondence, 1945-1946


Box 6 Folder 10 Correspondence, 1946


Box 6 Folder 11 French Delegation, Undated


Box 6 Folder 12 Identification Cards and Passes, 1945-1946


Box 6 Folder 13 Judgment, 1946


Box 6 Folder 14 Law Journal and Organization Articles, 1944-1946


Box 6 Folder 15 Legal Memoranda, 1943


Box 6 Folder 16 Legal Memoranda-Summaries of Prosecution Evidence, Undated


Box 6 Folder 17 Limericks by "S.S.A.", "Self-Proving Trial Briefs Against the Individual Defendants in Nurenberg", Undated



Box 7 Folder 1 Meeting Minutes, American Delegation, 1945


Box 7 Folder 2 Meeting Minutes, Organizational, Oct 1945


Box 7 Folder 3 Meeting Minutes, Organizational, Nov 1945


Box 7 Folder 4 Meeting Minutes, Organizational: Appendices, Undated


Box 7 Folder 5 Meeting Minutes, Organizational: Drafts, Undated


Box 7 Folder 6 Meetings: Public Meeting (Berlin), 1945


Box 7 Folder 7 Memoranda, 1945-1946


Box 7 Folder 8 Memorandum on the Charges Against Organizations, 1945



Box 8 Folder 1 Opening Address of the United States, 1945


Box 8 Folder 2 Orders and Notices, 1945


Box 8 Folder 3 Presentation Summary: Index of Rulings of the Tribunal, Undated


Box 8 Folder 4 Reports On Applications From Members Of Organizations Alleged To Be Criminal, Feb 1946


Box 8 Folder 5 Time Table for Conspiracy Count, 1946


Box 8 Folder 6 Travel Orders and Official Correspondence, 1946


Sub-series D: Nuremberg Military Tribunals, 1946-1996



Box 9 Folder 1 Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, Committee On War Crimes Research: Correspondence, 1947-1948


Box 9 Folder 2 Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, Committee On War Crimes Research: Correspondence, 1949


Box 9 Folder 3 Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, Committee On War Crimes Research: Correspondence, 1950


Box 9 Folder 4 Correspondence: General, 1946-1979


Box 9 Folder 5 Oral History, 1995-1996


Box 9 Folder 6 Publication Projects, 1947-1948


Box 9 Folder 7 Published Commentary and Clippings, 1947 , 1973 , 1984-1993


Box 9 Folder 8 Sprecher, Dexel A.: Correspondence, 1948-1951

Series III: American Law Institute, 1940-2003

Series III: American Law Institute (37 boxes, 18.5 linear feet). This series contains the work of Herbert Wechsler in various capacities with The American Law Institute. It is broken up into three Sub-Series.


Sub-series A: Directorship, 1963-1984

Sub-Series A contains the organizational material Wechsler dealt with as Director of the ALI.



Box 10 Folder 1 Appointment, 1963


Box 10 Folder 2 Arkansas, 1968


Box 10 Folder 3 Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution, 1979


Box 10 Folder 4 Committees, 1972-1976


Box 10 Folder 5 Copyright, Trademark, Patent, 1966-1988


Box 10 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1963


Box 10 Folder 7 Correspondence (Chron. File), Jan 1966-Jun 1966


Box 10 Folder 8 Correspondence (Chron. File), Jul 1966-Dec 1966



Box 11 Folder 1 Correspondence (Chron. File), Jan 1967-May 1967


Box 11 Folder 2 Correspondence (Chron. File), Jun 1967-Dec 1967


Box 11 Folder 3 Correspondence (Chron. File), 1968


Box 11 Folder 4 Council Correspondence, 1964-1973


Box 11 Folder 5 Council Correspondence, 1974-1982


Box 11 Folder 6 Council Meeting, May 1964


Box 11 Folder 7 Council Statistics, Feb 1977


Box 11 Folder 8 Executive Committee of the Council, 1965-1980


Box 11 Folder 9 Falk Foundation, 1966


Box 11 Folder 10 General File, 1966-1980



Box 12 Folder 1 Members Interested in Working on Projects, 1972-1980


Box 12 Folder 2 Membership Participation in Activities-Proposals and Correspondence, 1963-1983


Box 12 Folder 3 Property: Report of Richard R. Powell with Respect to the Desirability of Further Work on the Law of Property, 1979


Box 12 Folder 4 Report of the Director (original manuscript), 1973


Box 12 Folder 5 Report of the Director (orig. manuscript), 1974


Box 12 Folder 6 Report of the Director (orig. manuscript), 1975


Box 12 Folder 7 Report of the Director (orig. manuscript), 1978


Box 12 Folder 8 Report of the Director, 1979


Box 12 Folder 9 Report of the Director (orig. manuscript), 1980


Box 12 Folder 10 Report of the Director (orig. manuscript), 1981


Box 12 Folder 11 Reports: Background & Research, Undated , 1965-1977 , 1984


Sub-Series B: Model Penal Code (MPC), 1941-2003

Sub-Series B is the focal point of the series, collecting Wechsler's work on The Model Penal Code. The MPC material has drafts with annotations, research, and a large amount of correspondence discussing various sections. There are general files on the MPC as well as files pertaining to specific sections of the Code.


Sub-sub-Series 1: General MPC Files, 1952-2003



Box 13 Folder 1 Articles and Addresses regarding the MPC, 1952-1955 , 1961 , 1983


Box 13 Folder 2 Bibliography: Codes, 1970-1974


Box 13 Folder 3 Bibliography: Codes, 1975


Box 13 Folder 4 Bibliography: Codes, 1976


Box 13 Folder 5 Bibliography: Codes, 1977


Box 13 Folder 6 Bibliography: Codes, 1978


Box 13 Folder 7 Bibliography: Codes, 1979


Box 13 Folder 8 Bibliography: Codes, 1980


Box 13 Folder 9 Bibliography: Codes, 1981


Box 13 Folder 10 Bibliography: Codes, 1982


Box 13 Folder 11 Bibliography: Codes, 1983


Box 13 Folder 12 Cases & Articles Referencing the MPC, 1956-1965


Box 13 Folder 13 Clippings, Undated , 1962 , 2003


Box 13 Folder 14 Clippings: Penal Code, general, 1957-1965


Box 13 Folder 15 Comparative Tables: Model Penal Code-IL, NY, MN, WS, and NM, 1965-1966


Box 13 Folder 16 Correctional Provisions Controversy, 1959-1960


Box 13 Folder 17 Correspondence, 1963 , 1984-1985 , 1992-1993


Box 13 Folder 18 Correspondence: Comments and Edits, 1984 , 1986 , 1990


Box 13 Folder 19 Correspondence: West Publishing Company, 1984


Box 13 Folder 20 Correspondence: Workflow, 1976-1979 , 1982-1984


Box 13 Folder 21 Criminal Procedure Revisions, 1973 , 1980-1982


Box 13 Folder 22 Draft #5 w/notes & marginalia, 1954


Box 13 Folder 23 Draft #5: notes, comments, etc., May 1956



Box 14 Folder 1 Draft (Proposed Final with notes, revisions, & marginalia), 1961


Box 14 Folder 2 General Notes, Undated , 1963


Box 14 Folder 3 Hart, Henry M.: Correspondence, contributions, etc., Section 2 (general), Undated , 1956


Box 14 Folder 4 History, Development, & Early Research, 1952-1953


Box 14 Folder 5 Illinois Criminal Code of 1961, cases under, 1964


Box 14 Folder 6 Impossibility in Attempt, 1963-1964


Box 14 Folder 7 Introduction & Preface Material, Undated , 1962 , 1982-1984


Box 14 Folder 8 Low, Peter W.: Correspondence and Edits, 1967-1981


Box 14 Folder 9 Meeting, Undated


Box 14 Folder 10 Model Charge to Jury Under MPC Responsibility Standard, 1959


Box 14 Folder 11 National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals-Courts Task Force, 1973-1974


Box 14 Folder 12 Parole Controversy, 1961


Box 14 Folder 13 Parole Organization, notes & charts, 1967


Box 14 Folder 14 Published Critique: Provisions on Sentencing & Correction, 1960


Box 14 Folder 15 Psychological Terminology (Memorandum re: ), Undated


Box 14 Folder 16 Research & References: General, Undated , 1969 , 1975


Box 14 Folder 17 Sentencing, Correction & The Model Penal Code by HW (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 109), Feb 1961


Box 14 Folder 18 Sentencing Project, 1995



Box 15 Folder 1 Statutory Charts (comparisons to MPC), 1965


Box 15 Folder 2 A Study of the Use of the Model Penal Code by New York Higher Courts (Jonathan Fairbanks), 1976


Box 15 Folder 3 Style Material, Undated , 1956-1965


Box 15 Folder 4 Textual & General Edits, 1962-1965 , 1971


Box 15 Folder 5 Textual & General Edits ("Black Letter Editorial Matters"), 1953 , 1965-1966 , 1980


Box 15 Folder 6 25th Anniversary, President's Letter, 1987


Sub-sub-series 2: Section Files, 1941-1979


Box 15 Folder 7 Section 1: General, Undated


Box 15 Folder 8 Section 1.01, 1963 , 1973 , 1978-1979


Box 15 Folder 9 Section 1.02, 1967


Box 15 Folder 10 Section 1.02: Questionnaire, 1959


Box 15 Folder 11 Section 1.02: Research, 1953-1965



Box 16 Folder 1 Section 1.03, Undated, 1965-1966, 1971-1975 , 1965-1966 , 1971-1975


Box 16 Folder 2 Section 1.04, 1964-1965 , 1967


Box 16 Folder 3 Section 1.05, 1963


Box 16 Folder 4 Section 1.06, 1964-1966


Box 16 Folder 5 Section 1.07, Undated


Box 16 Folder 6 Section 1.08, 1963


Box 16 Folder 7 Section 1.09, 1963


Box 16 Folder 8 Section 1.10, Undated , 1963


Box 16 Folder 9 Section 1.11, Undated


Box 16 Folder 10 Section 1.12, 1963


Box 16 Folder 11 Section 1.13, Undated


Box 16 Folder 12 Section 1.14, Undated , 1955


Box 16 Folder 13 Section 2: General, 1953 , 1962-1968


Box 16 Folder 14 Section 2: Research, Undated


Box 16 Folder 15 Section 2: Schwartz, Lou: presentation at Annual Proceedings, 1960


Box 16 Folder 16 Section 2.01, 1955 , 1964-1967 , 1972


Box 16 Folder 17 Section 2.02, 1955 , 1962-1964 , 1970-1973



Box 17 Folder 1 Section 2.03, Undated , 1955 , 1962-1970


Box 17 Folder 2 Section 2.04, Undated , 1955 , 1970-1972


Box 17 Folder 3 Section 2.05, Undated , 1955 , 1964


Box 17 Folder 4 Section 2.06, Undated , 1955-1964 , 1971-1972


Box 17 Folder 5 Section 2.07, Undated , 1958-1962 , 1971-1972


Box 17 Folder 6 Section 2.08, Undated , 1963-1965 , 1971-1972


Box 17 Folder 7 Section 2.09, Undated , 1960-1963 , 1971-1972


Box 17 Folder 8 Section 2.10 (Superior Orders): Drafts, Notes, Comments, Research, 1941-1954, 1961-1965, 1970-1972 , 1961-1965 , 1970-1972


Box 17 Folder 9 Section 2.11 (Consent), Undated , 1964 , 1971-1972


Box 17 Folder 10 Section 2.12 (De Minimis Infractions), 1964 , 1971-1972


Box 17 Folder 11 Section 2.13 (Entrapment), Undated , 1964 , 1971-1975



Box 18 Folder 1 Section 3: Research: Clippings Notebook, 1955-1965


Box 18 Folder 2 Section 3: Research: Clippings Notebook, 1966-1968


Box 18 Folder 3 Section 3: Research: Clippings Correspondence, 1976



Box 19 Folder 1 Section 3: Research: Clippings Notebook, 1968-1971


Box 19 Folder 2 Section 3: Research: Clippings Notebook, 1971-1976



Box 20 Folder 1 Section 3.01, 1963 , 1971 , 1980


Box 20 Folder 2 Section 3.02, 1963 , 1971-1974 , 1980


Box 20 Folder 3 Section 3.03, 1971


Box 20 Folder 4 Section 3.04, Undated , 1971-1972


Box 20 Folder 5 Section 3.05, 1963-1964 , 1972 , 1980


Box 20 Folder 6 Section 3.06, 1963 , 1971-1972 , 1980


Box 20 Folder 7 Section 3.07, 1963 , 1970-1972


Box 20 Folder 8 Section 3.08, 1971-1972


Box 20 Folder 9 Section 3.09, 1963 , 1972 , 1974


Box 20 Folder 10 Section 3.10, 1972


Box 20 Folder 11 Section 3.11, 1972


Box 20 Folder 12 Section 3, Appendix A, 1972



Box 21 Folder 1 Section 4: Comments, Undated


Box 21 Folder 2 Section 4: Court Martial Manual Revision, re:, 1957-1959


Box 21 Folder 3 Section 4: Criteria of Responsibility: Correspondence: Wechsler & Guttmacher, 1953-1954


Box 21 Folder 4 Section 4: Criminal Responsibility: Correspondence, 1955-1961


Box 21 Folder 5 Section 4: Criminal Responsibility: Correspondence: Freedman, Guttmacher, & Overholser, 1959-1960


Box 21 Folder 6 Section 4: Criminal Responsibility: General Notes & Concerns, Undated , 1955 , 1957


Box 21 Folder 7 Section 4: Criminal Responsibility: Legislative Proposals, 1958-1961


Box 21 Folder 8 Section 4: Criminal Responsibility: Massachusetts Bill on, 1957-1961


Box 21 Folder 9 Section 4: Criminal Responsibility: Memorandum on definition of "mental disease" (HW), 1955


Box 21 Folder 10 Section 4: Criminal Responsibility: U.S. vs. Freeman, 1966


Box 21 Folder 11 Section 4: Fitness to Proceed Laws, Survey, Undated


Box 21 Folder 12 Section 4: General, 1962


Box 21 Folder 13 Section 4: Problems and Related Cases, 1954-1955


Box 21 Folder 14 Section 4: Problems and Related Cases: Research, 1957-1960



Box 22 Folder 1 Section 4: Problems of Policy in Drafting, Undated


Box 22 Folder 2 Section 4: Research: Bar Association of the District of Columbia: Committee on Criminal Responsibility, 1958-1959


Box 22 Folder 3 Section 4: Research: "California Dual Trial Method of Disposing of the Defense of Insanity" (Louis Swartz for HW), 1953


Box 22 Folder 4 Section 4: Research: Clippings and Articles, 1955-1966


Box 22 Folder 5 Section 4: Research: Commitment, 1952-1955


Box 22 Folder 6 Section 4: Research: Correspondence, 1955-1966


Box 22 Folder 7 Section 4: Research: General, Undated , 1948-1955



Box 23 Folder 1 Section 4: Research: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry: Committee on Forensic Psychiatry, Undated , 1950


Box 23 Folder 2 Section 4: Research: Group For The Advancement of Psychology: Committee on Forensic Psychiatry, 1951-1952


Box 23 Folder 3 Section 4: Research: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry: Committee on Forensic Psychiatry, 1954


Box 23 Folder 4 Section 4: Research: Guttmacher, Manfred S. M.D., Undated , 1954


Box 23 Folder 5 Section 4.01, Undated , 1960


Box 23 Folder 6 Section 4.01: Memorandum re: Missouri "Sexual Psychotic", 1963


Box 23 Folder 7 Section 4.01: Study of Jurisdictions, Responsibility Criteria, 1964 , 1967-1968


Box 23 Folder 8 Section 4.02, Undated , 1960


Box 23 Folder 9 Section 4.03, 1966


Box 23 Folder 10 Section 4.04, Undated , 1959


Box 23 Folder 11 Section 4.05, 1980


Box 23 Folder 12 Section 4.06, 1955


Box 23 Folder 13 Section 4.07, 1955


Box 23 Folder 14 Section 4.08, 1955



Box 24 Folder 1 Section 5: Discussion Transcript, 1960


Box 24 Folder 2 Section 5: Introduction, 1972


Box 24 Folder 3 Section 5.01, 1961 , 1972


Box 24 Folder 4 Section 5.02, 1972


Box 24 Folder 5 Section 5.03, 1972


Box 24 Folder 6 Section 5.04, 1972


Box 24 Folder 7 Section 5.05, 1972


Box 24 Folder 8 Section 5.06, 1972


Box 24 Folder 9 Section 5.07, 1972


Box 24 Folder 10 Section 6: General, 1978-1979



Box 25 Folder 1 Section 6.01, 1970-1975


Box 25 Folder 2 Section 6.02, 1972


Box 25 Folder 3 Section 6.03, 1972 , 1975 , 1978


Box 25 Folder 4 Section 6.04, 1970-1972


Box 25 Folder 5 Section 6.05, 1970-1972 , 1976-1977


Box 25 Folder 6 Section 6.06, 1960-1970 , 1972



Box 26 Folder 1 Section 6.07, 1972 , 1978


Box 26 Folder 2 Section 6.08, 1972 , 1978


Box 26 Folder 3 Section 6.09, 1972 , 1975 , 1978


Box 26 Folder 4 Section 6.10, 1972 , 1979


Box 26 Folder 5 Section 6.11, 1979


Box 26 Folder 6 Section 6.12, 1978


Box 26 Folder 7 Section 6.13, Undated , 1954 , 1961-1966


Box 26 Folder 8 Section 7: General, 1968 , 1975 , 1979


Box 26 Folder 9 Section 7.01, 1964


Box 26 Folder 10 Section 7.02, Undated , 1954 , 1961


Box 26 Folder 11 Section 7.03, 1962-1963 , 1967


Box 26 Folder 12 Section 7.05, 1965-1966


Box 26 Folder 13 Section 7.09, 1962 , 1966


Sub-series C: General Files, 1940-1995

Sub-Series C contains the general files and other work done by the ALI including the ALI's Corporate Governance Project, Restatements of the Law, and several other projects. For documents that may have been used as further research material for Wechsler's projects, see Series XII: Subject Files. For further research into Wechsler's work with the ALI, the ALI itself holds some of Wechsler's files in its archives within theDirector's Office Seriesof theExecutive Office Record Group, ALI.02.



Box 27 Folder 1 Administrative Law Project, 1962-1963 , 1971


Box 27 Folder 2 Annual Meeting, 1953


Box 27 Folder 3 Annual Meeting (I), 1954


Box 27 Folder 4 Annual Meeting (II), 1954


Box 27 Folder 5 Annual Meeting (III), 1954


Box 27 Folder 6 Annual Meeting, 1955



Box 28 Folder 1 Annual Meeting, 1964


Box 28 Folder 2 Annual Meeting Dinner: Correspondence regarding Herbert Wechsler's address, 1984-1985


Box 28 Folder 3 Annual Meeting Dinner: Speech, 1984


Box 28 Folder 4 Anti-Trust and Patent Law Projects, 1963-1980


Box 28 Folder 5 By-Laws and Amendments, 1968-1969


Box 28 Folder 6 By- Laws and Amendments, 1970-1972


Box 28 Folder 7 By-Laws and Amendments, 1976-1980


Box 28 Folder 8 By-Laws and Amendments: Special Committee Report, 1993


Box 28 Folder 9 Clippings and Articles, Undated , 1964



Box 29 Folder 1 Corporate Governance Project, Undated , 1977


Box 29 Folder 2 Corporate Governance Project, 1978-1979


Box 29 Folder 3 Corporate Governance Project, 1980


Box 29 Folder 4 Corporate Governance Project, 1981



Box 30 Folder 1 Corporate Governance Project, Jan 1982-May 1982


Box 30 Folder 2 Corporate Governance Project, Jun 1982-Dec 1982


Box 30 Folder 3 Corporate Governance Project, Jan 1982-Jul 1982


Box 30 Folder 4 Corporate Governance Project, Aug 1983


Box 30 Folder 5 Corporate Governance Project, Sep 1983



Box 31 Folder 1 Corporate Governance Project, Oct 1983


Box 31 Folder 2 Corporate Governance Project, Nov 1983


Box 31 Folder 3 Corporate Governance Project, Dec 1983


Box 31 Folder 4 Corporate Governance Project, Jan 1984


Box 31 Folder 5 Corporate Governance Project, Feb 1984


Box 31 Folder 6 Corporate Governance Project, Mar 1984-Apr 1984



Box 32 Folder 1 Corporate Governance Project, May 1984-Dec 1984


Box 32 Folder 2 Corporate Governance Project, 1985-1989 , 1992


Box 32 Folder 3 Corporate Governance Project: Advisers, 1978-1992


Box 32 Folder 4 Corporate Governance Project: Analysis (Investor Responsibility Research Center), 1986


Box 32 Folder 5 Corporate Governance Project: Bibliography, Undated , 1980 , 1983



Box 33 Folder 1 Corporate Governance Project: Conference, ALI-ABA, Dec 1977


Box 33 Folder 2 Corporate Governance Project: Conference, ALI-ABA, Jan 1978


Box 33 Folder 3 Corporate Governance Project: Conference, ALI-ABA, May 1978


Box 33 Folder 4 Corporate Governance Project: Conference, ALI-ABA, Mar 1980


Box 33 Folder 5 Corporate Governance Project: Consultants, 1980-1982


Box 33 Folder 6 Corporate Governance Project: Consultants, 1984


Box 33 Folder 7 Corporate Governance Project: Foundations and Financial Matters, 1978-1979 , 1983-1984


Box 33 Folder 8 Corporate Governance Project: Litigation Section Report, 1983


Box 33 Folder 9 Corporate Governance Project: Personnel, 1980 , 1982



Box 34 Folder 1 Correspondence: A-G, 1963-1981


Box 34 Folder 2 Correspondence: H-Z, 1963-1995


Box 34 Folder 3 Correspondence: Foundations, 1969-1973 , 1981


Box 34 Folder 4 Dinner: Ginsburg, Justice Ruth Bader: Remarks, 1995


Box 34 Folder 5 Federal Estate & Gift Tax Project: Study Draft Meeting, Dec 1966



Box 35 Folder 1 Federal Income Tax Project, Undated , 1972-1977 , 1983


Box 35 Folder 2 Federal Income Tax Project: Bibliography, 1979-1980


Box 35 Folder 3 Federal Income Tax Project: Grants, 1974-1982


Box 35 Folder 4 Federal Income Tax Project: Large Advisory Group, 1976-1982


Box 35 Folder 5 Federal Income Tax Project: Personnel, 1975-1978 , 1980


Box 35 Folder 6 Federal Income Tax Project: Subchapter C Study, 1982-1983


Box 35 Folder 7 Federal Income Tax Project: Subchapter J, 1979-1983


Box 35 Folder 9 Federal Income Tax Project: Subchapter S, 1981


Box 35 Folder 10 Federal Securities Code, 1983



Box 36 Folder 1 Finance and Development, 1980-1981


Box 36 Folder 2 Finance Committee, 1968-1980


Box 36 Folder 3 Foreign Relations Law, 1966 , 1974-1975


Box 36 Folder 4 Foreign Relations Law, 1976-1977


Box 36 Folder 5 Foreign Relations Law, 1978



Box 37 Folder 1 Foreign Relations Law, 1979-1980


Box 37 Folder 2 Foreign Relations Law, 1981


Box 37 Folder 3 Foreign Relations Law, 1982


Box 37 Folder 4 Foreign Relations Law, 1983


Box 37 Folder 5 Foreign Relations Law, Jan 1984-May 1984



Box 38 Folder 1 Foreign Relations Law, Jun 1984-Dec 1984


Box 38 Folder 2 Foreign Relations Law: Advisers, Undated


Box 38 Folder 3 Foreign Relations Law: Foreign Advisory Group, 1981-1982


Box 38 Folder 4 Foreign Relations Law: Personnel, 1977-1982


Box 38 Folder 5 Generation Skipping Transfers, 1982


Box 38 Folder 6 History Project: Audio-Visual, 1990


Box 38 Folder 7 History: "Refreshing Institutional Memories: Wisconsin & the ALI" by Shirley Abrahmson, 1994


Box 38 Folder 8 H.R. 9951 (prohibiting reimbursement of travelling expenses of judiciary): Correspondence w/ Representatives, 1969


Box 38 Folder 9 International Tax Aspects of U.S. Tax System Study, 1982-1983


Box 38 Folder 10 Labor Law Project, 1960-1965



Box 39 Folder 1 Land Use: Advisory Committee, 1963-1964


Box 39 Folder 2 Land Use: Advisory Committee, 1965-1966


Box 39 Folder 3 Land Use: Advisory Committee, 1967-1973


Box 39 Folder 4 Land Use: Advisory Committee: Babcock, Richard F., 1968-1969


Box 39 Folder 5 Land Use: Advisory Committee: Cutter, R. Ammi, 1964-1973



Box 40 Folder 1 Land Use: Advisory Committee: Dunham, Allison, 1964-1974


Box 40 Folder 2 Land Use: Advisory Committee: Krasnowiecki, Jan, 1965


Box 40 Folder 3 Land Use: General, 1969-1970


Box 40 Folder 4 Land Use: General, 1971-1972


Box 40 Folder 5 Law Dedicated Television Network, 1983



Box 41 Folder 1 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Advisory Committee Meeting, Feb 1968


Box 41 Folder 2 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Correspondence, Dec 1965-Apr 1966


Box 41 Folder 3 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Correspondence, May 1966-Dec 1966


Box 41 Folder 4 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Correspondence, 1967


Box 41 Folder 5 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Draft, 1965


Box 41 Folder 6 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Draft, 1966


Box 41 Folder 7 Model Code of Pre-Arraignment Procedure: Draft #4 w/notes & marginalia, 1970


Box 41 Folder 8 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Major Issues, memorandum, May 1966



Box 42 Folder 1 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Miranda Case impact, memorandum, Oct 1966


Box 42 Folder 2 Model Code on Pre-Arraignment: Press Release, Mar 1966


Box 42 Folder 3 Model Youth Correction Authority Act: Session Notes, 1940


Box 42 Folder 4 Modern Land Development Code, 1973


Box 42 Folder 5 National Institute of Justice: Proposal, 1972-1973


Box 42 Folder 6 Organization, 1988 , 1992-1997


Box 42 Folder 7 Private International Law: Advisory Committee, 1964


Box 42 Folder 8 Publication Forewords, 1966-1977


Box 42 Folder 9 Projects Proposed, 1963-1967


Box 42 Folder 10 Projects Proposed, 1968-1975


Box 42 Folder 11 Projects Proposed, 1976-1979


Box 42 Folder 12 Projects Proposed, 1980-1983


Box 42 Folder 13 Projects Status, Undated



Box 43 Folder 1 Publication Forewords: Drafts, Undated , 1973-1976


Box 43 Folder 2 Publication Forewords: Drafts, 1977-1980


Box 43 Folder 3 Restatement of the Law, Property, 1977-1979


Box 43 Folder 4 Restatement of the Law, Property, 1980-1984


Box 43 Folder 5 Restatement of the Law, Property: Advisers, 1977-1982


Box 43 Folder 6 Restatement of the Law, Second, 1968 , 1983 , 1985


Box 43 Folder 7 Restatement of the Law, Second, Restitution, 1976-1984


Box 43 Folder 8 Restatement of the Law, Second, Restitution: Advisers, 1980-1982


Box 43 Folder 9 Tax Advisory Group: Meeting, Jun 1964



Box 44 Folder 1 Tax Advisory Group: Meeting, Jan 1964


Box 44 Folder 2 Torts: Advisory Committee, 1970-1973


Box 44 Folder 3 Torts: Advisory Committee, 1974


Box 44 Folder 4 Torts: Correspondence: Trelease, Frank J., 1970-1971


Box 44 Folder 5 Torts: Law Codification, 1976-1977


Box 44 Folder 6 Torts: Reporter: Prosser, William L., 1962-1964



Box 45 Folder 1 Torts: Reporter: Prosser, William L., 1965


Box 45 Folder 2 Torts: Reporter: Prosser, William L., 1966


Box 45 Folder 3 Torts: Reporter: Prosser, William L., 1967-1970


Box 45 Folder 4 Torts: Reporter: Wade, John W., 1970


Box 45 Folder 5 Torts: Reporter: Wade, John W., 1971-1972


Box 45 Folder 6 Torts: Reporter: Wade, John W., 1973



Box 46 Folder 1 Torts: Reporter: Wade, John W., 1974


Box 46 Folder 2 Torts: Restatement, 1982


Box 46 Folder 3 Traffic Laws, 1963


Box 46 Folder 4 Uniform Commercial Code, 1982-1983


Box 46 Folder 5 Uniform Commercial Code, 1984


Box 46 Folder 6 Uniform Commercial Code: Permanent Editorial Board, 1983


Box 46 Folder 7 Uniform New Payments Code, 1983

Series IV: Organizations, 1929-1996

Series IV: Organizations (13 boxes, 6.5 linear feet). This series contains files from various organizations Herbert Wechsler was a member of, did work for, or contributed toward. Some notable organizations and projects include the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code, the United States Poultry Code Authority, and New York City's Rent Commission.



Box 47 Folder 1 American Bar Association, 1972 , 1991


Box 47 Folder 2 American Bar Association: Advisory Committee on Sentencing & Review, 1964-1966


Box 47 Folder 3 American Bar Association: Advisory Committee on Sentencing & Review, 1967-1970


Box 47 Folder 4 American Bar Association: Certification, 1932


Box 47 Folder 5 American Bar Association: Committee on Offenses Against the Law of Nations, Section of International and Comparative Law, 1948 , 1951


Box 47 Folder 6 American Bar Association: Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice, 1964-1965


Box 47 Folder 7 American Bar Association: Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice, 1966-1971


Box 47 Folder 8 American Bar Association: Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice: Working Outline, 1964


Box 47 Folder 9 American Philosophical Society, 1980-1988


Box 47 Folder 10 American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, 1965



Box 48 Folder 1 American Society of International Law, 1946


Box 48 Folder 2 American Society of International Law: Federalism Project, 1961-1962


Box 48 Folder 3 Americans for Democratic Action, 1948-1950


Box 48 Folder 4 Association of American Law Schools, 1946-1959


Box 48 Folder 5 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Application, 1946


Box 48 Folder 6 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Committee on Admissions, 1966-1967


Box 48 Folder 7 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Committee on International Arms Control & Security Affairs, 1989


Box 48 Folder 8 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Committee on Grievances, 1966-1968


Box 48 Folder 9 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Constitution & By-Laws, 1966


Box 48 Folder 10 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Executive Committee, 1965


Box 48 Folder 11 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Executive Committee, 1966


Box 48 Folder 12 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Executive Committee, 1967


Box 48 Folder 13 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Executive Committee, 1968



Box 49 Folder 1 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Executive Committee: Meetings, 1965


Box 49 Folder 2 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Executive Committee: Meetings, 1966


Box 49 Folder 3 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Executive Committee: Meetings, 1967


Box 49 Folder 4 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Proposed Changes to Rules of Criminal Procedure, 1943-1944 , 1951-1952 , 1958-1959


Box 49 Folder 5 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Public and Bar Relations Committee, 1947-1954


Box 49 Folder 6 Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Tax Law Committee, 1947-1948


Box 49 Folder 7 Board of Higher Education: Screening Panel, 1964



Box 50 Folder 1 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto), 1964-1966


Box 50 Folder 2 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Advisory Council, 1967-1969


Box 50 Folder 3 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Advisory Council: Meetings, 1964-1966


Box 50 Folder 4 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Advisory Council: Meetings, 1967


Box 50 Folder 5 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Advisory Council: Meetings, 1968-1969


Box 50 Folder 6 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): "Automatism & Social-Defense" by J. LI. J. Edwards, 1964


Box 50 Folder 7 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Conference of Chief Justices of the Supreme Courts of the Provinces of Canada, 1964


Box 50 Folder 8 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Contract (w/Department of Solicitor General), 1968


Box 50 Folder 9 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Creation & Objectives, Undated , 1966



Box 51 Folder 1 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Finances and Budget, 1965


Box 51 Folder 2 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Graduate Seminars, 1968-1969


Box 51 Folder 3 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Library, 1968-1970


Box 51 Folder 4 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): National Conference on the Prevention of Crime, 1965


Box 51 Folder 5 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): "Penal Reform and the Machinery of Criminal Justice in Canada" by J. Ll. J. Edwards, 1965


Box 51 Folder 6 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Position Papers and Proposals, 1964-1966


Box 51 Folder 7 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Report, 1966


Box 51 Folder 8 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Report: Library, 1965


Box 51 Folder 9 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Studies and Research, 1965-1966


Box 51 Folder 10 Centre of Criminology (University of Toronto): Studies and Research, 1968


Box 51 Folder 11 The Century Association, 1959-1962 , 1966-1977 , 1980


Box 51 Folder 12 Citizen's Committee on Prison Overcrowding, 1983


Box 51 Folder 13 City College Associate Alumni Committee of Fifteen, 1935-1936


Box 51 Folder 14 City College Associate Alumni Committee of Fifteen: Administration and Student Body Relations, 1935-1936


Box 51 Folder 15 City College Associate Alumni Committee of Fifteen: Reports, 1935-1936


Box 51 Folder 16 City College Associate Alumni Committee of Fifteen: Report on Radical Student Organizations, 1936


Box 51 Folder 17 City College Honorary Degree Committee, 1941 , 1971-1973



Box 52 Folder 1 Committee on War Crimes Research, 1949


Box 52 Folder 2 Correctional Association of New York, 1981-1990


Box 52 Folder 3 Emory School of Law Visiting Committee, 1982


Box 52 Folder 4 International Association of Penal Law: Revision of Statutes Project, 1950


Box 52 Folder 5 Law Commission for England and Wales, 1965-1972


Box 52 Folder 6 Law Commission for England and Wales: "Proposed Bill of Rights for England", 1975


Box 52 Folder 7 Lawyers' Committee on Supreme Court Nominations, 1968


Box 52 Folder 8 MacArthur Foundation: Criminal Justice Study Group, 1980-1982


Box 52 Folder 9 MacArthur Foundation: Justice Program Study Group, 1982-1984


Box 52 Folder 10 Manuel F. Cohen Memorial Lectureship Fund, 1978-1980


Box 52 Folder 11 Miscellaneous Organizations, 1935-1996



Box 53 Folder 1 New York Law Society: Corporations: Stockholders Suits, 1937-1940


Box 53 Folder 2 New York Law Society: Correspondence, 1935-1940


Box 53 Folder 3 New York Law Society: "The Forgotten Adolescent", 1940


Box 53 Folder 4 New York Law Society: Judicial Council of New York State, Analysis, 1939


Box 53 Folder 5 New York Law Society: Legal Education, Undated


Box 53 Folder 6 New York Law Society: Liquidation of Wage Earner Debts, 1937-1939


Box 53 Folder 7 New York Law Society: Meeting Minutes, 1935-1940


Box 53 Folder 8 New York Law Society: Memorandum, Undated , 1937


Box 53 Folder 9 New York Law Society: Proposals: Minimizing Calendar Delay In Jury Cases, Undated


Box 53 Folder 10 New York Law Society: Proposals: To Assist the Mayor's Committee For the Study of Sex Offenders, Undated , 1940


Box 53 Folder 11 New York Law Society: Reports: Future Programs, Undated , 1940


Box 53 Folder 12 New York Law Society: Reports: Pre-Trial Procedure, 1936


Box 53 Folder 13 New York Law Society: Reports: Principal Activities, 1939-1940


Box 53 Folder 14 New York Law Society: Reports: Protest Litigation Study, 1937


Box 53 Folder 15 New York Law Society: Reports: Title Registration, 1938


Box 53 Folder 16 New York Law Society: Research Directorship: Appointment and Resignation, 1939-1940



Box 54 Folder 1 New York State Bar Association: Admission, 1932


Box 54 Folder 2 New York State Commission On Judicial Nomination, 1979-1981


Box 54 Folder 3 New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Penal Institutions, 1967


Box 54 Folder 4 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Capital Punishment, 1962-1965


Box 54 Folder 5 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Capital Punishment: Staff Report, 1965


Box 54 Folder 6 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: CBS TV Program on NYS Legislation to Abolish Capital Punishment (Features Wechsler Interview), 1965


Box 54 Folder 7 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Correspondence, 1961-1964


Box 54 Folder 8 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Drafts, 1963-1964


Box 54 Folder 9 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Draft Revision (notes, edits, marginalia), 1963



Box 55 Folder 1 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Hearings, 1964


Box 55 Folder 2 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Insurance Law, 1962


Box 55 Folder 3 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Interim Report, 1962


Box 55 Folder 4 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Interim Reports (annotations, marginalia), 1963


Box 55 Folder 5 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Labor Law, 1962


Box 55 Folder 6 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Meeting, 1964


Box 55 Folder 7 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Memorandum, 1962-1964


Box 55 Folder 8 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment, 1962



Box 56 Folder 1 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 1, Title B (Offenses and Sentences), 1960-1964


Box 56 Folder 2 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title G, Article 100 (Criminal Solicitation), Undated


Box 56 Folder 3 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title H (Offenses Against Individual), 1960-1963


Box 56 Folder 4 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title H, Article 120 (Physical Injury), 1963


Box 56 Folder 5 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title H, Article 125 (Homicide, Abortion, and Other Related Offenses), 1962-1963


Box 56 Folder 6 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title H, Article 130 (Sex Offenses), 1963


Box 56 Folder 7 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title H, Article 135 (Kidnapping, Coercion, and Related Offenses), Undated


Box 56 Folder 8 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title I, Article 140 (Burglary and Related Offenses), 1963


Box 56 Folder 9 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title I, Article 145 (Criminal Mischief), Undated


Box 56 Folder 10 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title I, Article 150 (Arson), Undated


Box 56 Folder 11 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title J (Offenses Involving Theft), 1963


Box 56 Folder 12 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title K (Offenses Involving Fraud), 1963


Box 56 Folder 13 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title K, Article 175 (Forgery), 1963



Box 57 Folder 1 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title L (Offenses Against Public Administration), 1963


Box 57 Folder 2 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title L, Article 215 (Perjury and Related Offenses), 1963


Box 57 Folder 3 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title M (Offenses Against Public Health and Morals), 1963


Box 57 Folder 4 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title M, Article 20 (Gambling Offenses), 1962


Box 57 Folder 5 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title N (Offenses Against Public Order), 1963


Box 57 Folder 6 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title O (Offenses Against Marriage, the Family, and Child Welfare), 1963


Box 57 Folder 7 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 2, Title P (Offenses Against Public Safety), 1963


Box 57 Folder 8 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Part 3, Title V (Seizure and Destruction of Contraband), Undated


Box 57 Folder 9 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Proposed NY Penal Law (Senate Intro. 3918, Assembly Intro. 5376), with HW annotation and marginalia, 1964


Box 57 Folder 10 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: "Revision of Correction Law" (Sanford Bates material), 1966


Box 57 Folder 11 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Special Report, 1965


Box 57 Folder 12 New York State Temporary Commission on Revision of the Penal Law and Criminal Code: Tobin, Charles J. (NYS Catholic Welfare Committee), 1964



Box 58 Folder 1 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Correspondence, 1934-1935


Box 58 Folder 2 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Correspondence, Official, 1934-1935


Box 58 Folder 3 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Codes, 1934-1935


Box 58 Folder 4 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Decrees and Legal Statements, 1934


Box 58 Folder 5 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Forms, 1934


Box 58 Folder 6 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Memorandum, 1934-1935


Box 58 Folder 7 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Orders, 1934-1935


Box 58 Folder 8 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Report, 1935


Box 58 Folder 9 Poultry Code Authority (National Recovery Administration): Research and Studies, includes clippings and notes, Undated , 1929 , 1934



Box 59 Folder 1 Round Table Committee on Law and Psychology, 1950-1951


Box 59 Folder 2 Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 1944


Box 59 Folder 3 Temporary City Housing Rent Commission, 1948-1950


Box 59 Folder 4 Temporary City Housing Rent Commission: Correspondence, 1948-1950


Box 59 Folder 5 Temporary City Housing Rent Commission: Organization and Personnel, 1948-1949


Box 59 Folder 6 Temporary City Housing Rent Commission: Proposed Regulations, 1949


Box 59 Folder 7 Temporary City Housing Rent Commission: Speeches, 1949-1950

Series V: Teaching and University Work, 1934-1987

Series V: Teaching and University Work (6 boxes, 3 linear feet). This series contains papers related to Wechsler's work as a professor and is split into two sub-series. A large portion of the series consists of the records of interaction with the faculty and various faculty initiatives within Columbia's Law School. Some of the material concerns the student unrest Columbia experienced in 1968 and the Faculty reaction and involvement, particularly at the Law School. A small portion of material deals with discussions on teaching methods.


Sub-series A: Columbia University, 1934-1983



Box 60 Folder 1 Advisory Committee on Educational Policy, Undated


Box 60 Folder 2 Appointments, 1940-1945 , 1957 , 1962-1983


Box 60 Folder 3 Bicentennial Conference on Federalism, 1954


Box 60 Folder 4 Board of Visitors, 1959-1972


Box 60 Folder 5 Columbia - Cambridge Exchange: Criminology Fellowship Program, 1971-1973


Box 60 Folder 6 Columbia Law Review, 1951-1979


Box 60 Folder 7 Columbia Law Review: Issue Dedicated to Wechsler, 1977-1980


Box 60 Folder 8 Committee on Corporate Participation, 1949


Box 60 Folder 9 Committee on Instruction: Constitutional Law, 1973-1981


Box 60 Folder 10 Committee on Instruction: Criminal and Family Law, 1973



Box 61 Folder 1 Computers and the Law, 1967-1979


Box 61 Folder 2 Continuing Legal Education, 1980-1981


Box 61 Folder 3 Correspondence, Undated , 1946-1958


Box 61 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1962-1982


Box 61 Folder 5 Correspondence: Gellhorn, Walter, 1954


Box 61 Folder 6 Correspondence: Kirk, Grayson (Vice President and Provost), 1950-1952


Box 61 Folder 7 Correspondence: Radzinowicz, Sir Leon, 1964-1969 , 1978


Box 61 Folder 8 Correspondence: Smith, Young B. (Dean), 1948-1952


Box 61 Folder 9 Correspondence: Warren, William C. (Dean), 1953-1956


Box 61 Folder 10 Criminal Law: Introductory Lectures, 1975


Box 61 Folder 11 Czechoslovakian Studies, 1946


Box 61 Folder 12 Development Plan Committee: Report, 1948


Box 61 Folder 13 Development Plans, Undated , 1953


Box 61 Folder 14 Events (Dinners, Receptions, etc), 1989


Box 61 Folder 15 Faculty Club, 1964-1976


Box 61 Folder 16 Faculty Club (receipts), Undated , 1953


Box 61 Folder 17 Faculty Secretariat, 1972-1979


Box 61 Folder 18 Financing, 1964-1975



Box 62 Folder 1 Forum for the Study and Prevention of Crime, 1949


Box 62 Folder 2 Harlan Fiske Stone Fellowship, 1971-1976


Box 62 Folder 3 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars, 1972-1981


Box 62 Folder 4 Law Faculty: Committees on Instruction, 1973


Box 62 Folder 5 Law Faculty: Memorandum, Undated, 1965-1968


Box 62 Folder 6 Law Faculty: Memorandum, 1969-1984


Box 62 Folder 7 Law Faculty: Memorandum, 1988


Box 62 Folder 8 Law Faculty: President's Committee on the State of the University, 1950


Box 62 Folder 9 Law Faculty: Report on the State of the University, 1950


Box 62 Folder 10 Law Faculty: Resolution, 1978


Box 62 Folder 11 Law Faculty: Work with Psychiatry Faculty, 1965-1969


Box 62 Folder 12 Law Library: Book Donations, 1975-1980


Box 62 Folder 13 Law Library: General, 1975-1981


Box 62 Folder 14 Law Library: List of Publications, 1975-1979


Box 62 Folder 15 Law School Development Program, 1948-1952


Box 62 Folder 16 Law School Centennial, 1958



Box 63 Folder 1 Law School History, 1934 , 1937-1938


Box 63 Folder 2 Legal Education, 1973-1981


Box 63 Folder 3 Michael, Jerome (Memorial fund and Portrait), 1953-1963


Box 63 Folder 4 New Building: Faculty Reports and Correspondence, 1956-1961


Box 63 Folder 5 Oral History, 1968-1980


Box 63 Folder 6 Oral History Advisory Committee, 1977-1980


Box 63 Folder 7 Parkhurst Fund, 1958-1981


Box 63 Folder 8 Parkhurst Prize, Jaffin Prize and Dean's Research Funds, 1958-1974


Box 63 Folder 9 Program for Training and Research in Law and Government and International Affairs, 1949-1950


Box 63 Folder 10 Radio and TV Office, 1966


Box 63 Folder 11 Salzburg Seminars, 1966-1981


Box 63 Folder 12 Student Unrest: Clippings, 1968


Box 63 Folder 13 Student Unrest: Clippings: "The Hard Core" (Students for a Democratic Society), 1968



Box 64 Folder 1 Student Unrest: Disciplinary Affairs, 1968


Box 64 Folder 2 Student Unrest: Faculty, Executive Committee, 1968


Box 64 Folder 3 Student Unrest: Fliers, Undated , 1968


Box 64 Folder 4 Student Unrest: Independent Faculty Group Statement, Undated , 1968


Box 64 Folder 5 Student Unrest: Law Faculty, 1968-1969


Box 64 Folder 6 Student Unrest: Law School News, 1968


Box 64 Folder 7 Student Unrest: Law School Students, Undated , 1968


Box 64 Folder 8 Student Unrest: Law School Students Steering Committee, 1968


Box 64 Folder 9 Student Unrest: Office of Public Information, 1968


Box 64 Folder 10 Student Unrest: Office of the Provost, 1968


Box 64 Folder 11 Student Unrest: Riots, 1968-1972


Box 64 Folder 12 Student Unrest: "Sit-In", Litigation arising from, 1968


Box 64 Folder 13 University Senate Proposal, 1969


Box 64 Folder 14 Walter E. Meyer Research Professorship, 1973


Box 64 Folder 15 Warren, William C., 1957-1970


Sub-series B: Other Universities, 1956-1987



Box 65 Folder 1 Harvard Law School: Appointment, 1956


Box 65 Folder 2 Harvard Law School: Yearbook, 1957


Box 65 Folder 3 Lecture and Professorship Invitations: Turned Down, 1966-1970


Box 65 Folder 4 Visiting Professorships: Cleveland State, 1985


Box 65 Folder 5 Visiting Professorships: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1986-1987


Box 65 Folder 7 Yale: Curriculum Committee, Undated

Series VI: Conferences, 1949-1990

Series VI: Conferences (2 boxes, 1 linear foot). This small series contains materials collected from or related to some of the conferences Wechsler attended or spoke at.



Box 66 Folder 1 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Committee I: Maintenance of Revolutionary Values, Paper, 1976


Box 66 Folder 2 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Committee I: Maintenance of Revolutionary Values, Plenary Session Report, 1976


Box 66 Folder 3 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Committee II: Effectiveness of Governmental Operations, Paper, 1976


Box 66 Folder 4 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Committee II: Effectiveness of Governmental Operations, Plenary Session Report, 1976


Box 66 Folder 5 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Committee III: Shopping of Public Policy, Paper, 1976


Box 66 Folder 6 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Committee III and Committee IV: Plenary Session Report, 1976


Box 66 Folder 7 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Committee V: The United States and the World, Paper, 1976


Box 66 Folder 8 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: General, 1976-1980


Box 66 Folder 9 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Introductory Remarks, 1976


Box 66 Folder 10 Bicentennial Conference on The United States Constitution: Official Program, 1976



Box 67 Folder 1 Conference on Probation, Prison, and Parole (University of Chicago), 1949


Box 67 Folder 2 Federal Courts: The Next 100 Years (University of South Carolina, School of Law), 1986


Box 67 Folder 3 Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1984-1985 , 1987


Box 67 Folder 4 Fourth Judicial Sentencing Institute of the Crime Commission of Philadelphia, 1968


Box 67 Folder 5 Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit of the United States, 1976


Box 67 Folder 6 Legal Theory Workshop (Columbia University), 1990


Box 67 Folder 7 Model Penal Code Conference (Rutgers University), 1987


Box 67 Folder 8 National Conference on Citizenship, 1950


Box 67 Folder 9 Symposium: Reflections on the Founding of a Discipline: The Creation of Criminal Justice" (SUNY-Albany), 1985


Box 67 Folder 10 Toward A New Criminal Code for Canada (Law Reform Commission of Canada), 1984

Series VII: Legal Work, 1937-1992

Series VII: Legal Work (6 boxes, 3 linear feet). This series contains two sub-series.Sub-Series Acontains a portion of Herbert Wechsler's legal work, including some of the work and notes that went into the New York Times v. Sullivan case.Sub-Series Bcontains Wechsler's work as an arbitrator.


Sub-series A: Private Practice, 1937-1992



Box 68 Folder 1 Bank Merger Act (S. 1698): Opinion, 1965


Box 68 Folder 2 Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts, Undated


Box 68 Folder 3 Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts: Chronology, Undated


Box 68 Folder 4 Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts: Digests, 1960-1966


Box 68 Folder 5 Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts: Memorandum, 1966


Box 68 Folder 6 Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts: Petition for Rehearing, 1966-1967


Box 68 Folder 7 Cabot Corporation v. Public Service Commission of West Virginia: Correspondence, Legal Documents, 1976


Box 68 Folder 8 Deficiency Judgment Study, 1937


Box 68 Folder 9 Korematsu v. United States, 1985-1987


Box 68 Folder 10 New York Times v. Sullivan: Clippings, 1964-1992


Box 68 Folder 11 New York Times v. Sullivan: Lewish, Anthony, 1964-1965 , 1984-1987


Box 68 Folder 12 New York Times v. Sullivan: Franklin, Mark, "Alternatives to Damage Suits for Libel", 1986



Box 69 Folder 1 New York Times v. Sullivan: Oral Argument, 1964


Box 69 Folder 2 New York Times v. Sullivan: Oral Argument: Audiocassette, 1964


Box 69 Folder 3 New York Times v. Sullivan: Progeny, 1983-1989


Box 69 Folder 4 New York Times v. Sullivan-Symposium: "Libel Law Under the Constitution-Marking the 20th Anniversary of New York Times vs. Sullivan" (ABA, ANPA), 1983-1984


Box 69 Folder 5 New York Times v. Sullivan-Symposium: New York State Bar Association, 1989


Box 69 Folder 6 New York Times v. Sullivan-Symposium: "The Next Twenty Years", 1984



Box 70 Folder 1 Stanton [Frank], House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subpoena: Correspondence, 1969 , 1971


Box 70 Folder 2 Supreme Court Cases: Transcripts (note to rather on cover), 1936


Box 70 Folder 3 Supreme Court Cases: Transcripts, 1940


Box 70 Folder 4 Supreme Court Cases: Transcripts, 1960-1969


Box 70 Folder 5 United States v. Ginzburg (Ralph): Correspondence & Legal Documents, 1966-1972


Box 70 Folder 6 United States v. Williams: Correspondence and Legal Documents, 1981


Sub-series B: Arbitrations, 1947-1963



Box 71 Folder 1 Actors' Equity vs. Much Ado About Nothing, 1959-1960


Box 71 Folder 2 American Arbitrations (cancelled), 1958


Box 71 Folder 3 American Arbitration Association & Board of Mediation, 1947-1948


Box 71 Folder 4 American Federation of Television & Radio Artists and Metropolitan Broadcasting Corp., 1960


Box 71 Folder 5 AGVA (Elinor Ross) and Dallas Civic Opera Co., 1960


Box 71 Folder 6 AGVA-Bramson Entertainment Bureau (Hearing), 1961


Box 71 Folder 7 Arbitration Bills, 1958


Box 71 Folder 8 Arthur Landsberg and Beth Israel Hospital, 1959-1960


Box 71 Folder 9 Aurora Plastics, Inc. and Local 815, I.B.T., 1958-1959


Box 71 Folder 10 Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, Local 829, Columbia Broadcasting System, 1962


Box 71 Folder 11 Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, 1962-1964


Box 71 Folder 12 Brouse Stationary Company-Dist. 65 Department Store, 1960


Box 71 Folder 13 Carroll-McCreary Company and Local 852, I.B.T., 1959



Box 72 Folder 1 Duo Productions, Inc. against Guild Films Company, Inc., 1960


Box 72 Folder 2 Fisher Stevens, Inc., 1958


Box 72 Folder 3 Flight Engineers' International Association vs. Pan American World Airways, 1961-1962


Box 72 Folder 4 Frito Co.-Bakery Drivers Local 802, 1960-1961


Box 72 Folder 5 General, 1963-1964


Box 72 Folder 6 General Tire & Rubber Co.-Local 259, 1962


Box 72 Folder 7 Hickory House v. Local 1 Dining Room, 1959


Box 72 Folder 8 Hotel & Club Employees Union and Book Club, 1958


Box 72 Folder 9 Insurance Agents' International Union, Local 19 vs. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, 1952


Box 72 Folder 10 International Associations of Machinists, District 15 vs. Reli-Coil Corporation, 1950


Box 72 Folder 11 I.B.E.W., Local 1614 and Ponsell Flour Machine Co., 1961


Box 72 Folder 12 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and WMCA, 1960


Box 72 Folder 13 IVE Radio & Machine Workers, Local 498 and Sonotone Corporation, 1960-1961


Box 72 Folder 14 I.U.E., Radio and Machine Workers and Westinghouse Electric Co., 1961-1962


Box 72 Folder 15 King Baking Co. and Local 550, Bakery Drivers Union, 1961


Box 72 Folder 16 Kyle, Alistair v. United States of America, 1959


Box 72 Folder 17 Larchment Shore Club and Local 178, Hotel, Restaurant & Bartenders Employees, 1962


Box 72 Folder 18 Lefferts General Hospital and Local 144, Hotel & Allied Service Employees Union, 1961


Box 72 Folder 19 The Liza Company and United Scenic Artists, 1957-1960


Box 72 Folder 20 Longchamps, Inc. vs. Bar Union of NYC, Local 15, 1950


Box 72 Folder 21 Milk Dealers' Association of Metropolitan NY et. Al. vs. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 30 et. al., 1945


Box 72 Folder 22 N.J. Aluminum Extrusion Co. vs. United Steelworkers, 1960


Box 72 Folder 23 N.J. State Board of Mediation (General), 1959


Box 72 Folder 24 N.J. State Board of Mediation-Panel of Arbitrators, 1959


Box 72 Folder 25 New York Fur Stylist Association vs. Furriers Joint Council of NY, Local 120, 1954



Box 73 Folder 1 O.C.A.W. Intl' Union and E.R. Squibb & Sons, 1962 - 1963


Box 73 Folder 2 Oscar Goldman d/b/a/ Sav-On Drug Store vs. Retail Drug Employees Union, Local 1199, 1954


Box 73 Folder 3 Precision Film Laboratories vs. Local 702 Motion Picture Lab Tech. Union, 1962


Box 73 Folder 4 Princeton Film Center vs. Board of Transportation, 1951


Box 73 Folder 5 Scully-Walton Ambulance Company and Local 643, I.B.T., 1960


Box 73 Folder 6 Spalding Baking Co. vs. Local 550, Bakery Drivers, 1960


Box 73 Folder 7 Textile Workers Union of America, Local 1932 (Dryers & Finishers) vs. Federal Leather Company, 1955


Box 73 Folder 8 United Automobile Workers, Local 688 vs. Pacific Automotive Company, 1953


Box 73 Folder 9 United Cement, Lime & Gypsum Workers and Lehigh Portland Cement Co., 1962


Box 73 Folder 10 United Department Store Workers of America, Local I-S vs. R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., 1952


Box 73 Folder 11 United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers of America and Kentile, Inc., 1961-1962


Box 73 Folder 12 United Steelworkers of America and Rheem Manufacturing Co., 1958


Box 73 Folder 13 University Loudspeakers, Inc. vs. United Electrical, Radio, & Machine Workers of America, 1951


Box 73 Folder 14 Writers Guild of America and Metromedia, Inc., 1961


Box 73 Folder 15 Writers Guild of America vs. Columbia Broadcasting System, 1961

Series VIII: Writings, 1932-1999

Series VIII: Writings(8 boxes, 4 linear feet). This series contains various writings by Wechsler including speeches and special lectures. Drafts, comments, and correspondence relative to the work that went into many of Wechsler's published work can be found in this series, especially relative to the creation of Wechsler's casebooks. Among the special lectures is Wechsler's article/lecture "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law" with drafts, notes, and responses. The series also contains Wechsler's "letters to the editor" of various publications.


Sub-series A: Articles, 1932-1995



Box 74 Folder 1 "American Law Institute: Some Observations on its Model Penal Code", reprinted from Crime and Insanity, 1958


Box 74 Folder 2 "The Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court: Reflections on the Law and the Logistics of Direct Review," Washington and Lee Law Review: Article and Draft, 1977


Box 74 Folder 3 "Carl Joseph Austrian," Memorial Book, 1971


Box 74 Folder 4 "Codification of Criminal Law in the United States: The Model Penal Code," Columbia Law Review, 1968


Box 74 Folder 5 "A Colleague's Tribute [Judge Paul R. Hays]," Columbia Law Review, 1972


Box 74 Folder 6 "Columbians as Chief Justices: John Jay, Charles Evans Hughes, and Harlan Fiske Stone," New York History, 1988


Box 74 Folder 7 Correspondence: General, 1984-1985 , 1987 , 1995


Box 74 Folder 8 "The Course In Criminal Law", 1936


Box 74 Folder 9 "The Course of the Restatements," American Bar Association Journal, 1969


Box 74 Folder 10 "La Culpabilite et L'infraction L'intention Coupable dans Model Penal Code," Le Systeme Penal des Etats-Unis d'Amerique, 1964


Box 74 Folder 11 "Death Sentence: Its Pros and Cons," LIFE Magazine, 1960


Box 74 Folder 12 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution entry: Correspondence, 1980 , 1983-1984


Box 74 Folder 13 "Equal Protection is a Double-Edged Sword," One Hundred Years of the Fourteenth Amendment: Implications for the Future, 1973


Box 74 Folder 14 "Federal Jurisdiction" for University of the Air, United States State Department, 1947


Box 74 Folder 15 Forewords and Prefaces, 1941 , 1958-1963 , 1981


Box 74 Folder 16 "The Future of Political and Intellectual Freedom, " Virginia Quarterly Review, 1970


Box 74 Folder 17 "Habeus Corpus and the Supreme Court: Reconsidering the Reach of the Great Writ, " University of Colorado Law Review, 1988


Box 74 Folder 18 "Law Schools and the Law," Harvard Law School Bulletin, 1967



Box 75 Folder 1 "The Model Penal Code and the Codification of American Criminal Law," Crime, Criminology, and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz: Article and Draft, 1973-1974


Box 75 Folder 2 "The Political Safeguards of Federalism: The Role of the States in the Composition and Selection of the National Government," Columbia Law Review, 1954


Box 75 Folder 3 Published Articles: General, Undated , 1937-1949


Box 75 Folder 4 Published Articles: General, 1952-1988


Box 75 Folder 5 "Reflections on the Centennial Conference," Columbia Law Alumni Bulletin, 1958


Box 75 Folder 6 "Restatement and Legal Change: Problems of Policy in the Restatement Work of the American Law Institute," St. Louis Law Journal, 1968


Box 75 Folder 7 Stone, Harlan Fisk: Articles regarding (includes research and background material), Undated , 1932-1973


Sub-series B: Books, 1933-1980



Box 76 Folder 1 The Criminal Law and Its Administration (1940): Correspondence, 1933 , 1935-1938


Box 76 Folder 2 The Criminal Law and Its Administration (1940): Correspondence, 1939-1941


Box 76 Folder 3 The Criminal Law and Its Administration (1940): Correspondence, 1942-1945 , 1947-1959


Box 76 Folder 4 The Criminal Law and Its Administration (1940): Michael, Jerome, 1935-1938 , 1940-1941


Box 76 Folder 5 The Criminal Law and Its Administration (1940): Michael, Jerome, 1942-1947


Box 76 Folder 6 The Criminal Law and Its Administration (1940): Permissions, 1937 , 1940



Box 77 Folder 1 The Criminal Law and Its Administration: Cases, Statutes and Commentaries, Michael, Jerome and Herbert Wechsler (Chicago: The Foundation Press Inc., 1940): Bound first edition with notes and marginalia, 1940


Box 77 Folder 2 Criminal Law and Its Administration, 1956 Supplement: Bound edition with Notes and Marginalia, Undated , 1956


Box 77 Folder 3 Criminal Law Casebook: Correspondence, 1961-1976



Box 78 Folder 1 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Chapter I: notes and research, Undated


Box 78 Folder 2 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Chapter III: notes and research, Undated


Box 78 Folder 3 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Chapter IV: notes and research, Undated


Box 78 Folder 4 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Chapter VI: notes and research, Undated


Box 78 Folder 5 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Chapter X: notes and research, Undated


Box 78 Folder 6 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Correspondence, 1948-1952


Box 78 Folder 7 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Correspondence, Jan 1953-Jun 1953



Box 79 Folder 1 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Correspondence, Jul 1953


Box 79 Folder 2 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Correspondence, Aug 1953


Box 79 Folder 3 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Correspondence, Sep 1953-Nov 1953


Box 79 Folder 4 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Correspondence, 1954


Box 79 Folder 5 The Federal Courts and the Federal System (1953): Correspondence: Fan Mail, 1953-1957



Box 80 Folder 1 The Federal Courts and the Federal System, 1977 Supplement: Correspondence and Notes, 1973-1975


Box 80 Folder 2 The Federal Courts and the Federal System, 1977 Supplement: Correspondence and Notes, Jan 1976-Apr 1976


Box 80 Folder 3 The Federal Courts and the Federal System, 1977 Supplement: Correspondence and Notes, May 1976-Aug 1976


Box 80 Folder 4 The Federal Courts and the Federal System, 1977 Supplement: Correspondence and Notes, Sep 1976-Nov 1977


Box 80 Folder 5 The Federal Courts and the Federal System, 1977 Supplement: Publisher's Copy, 1976


Box 80 Folder 6 The Federal Courts and the Federal System, 1981 Supplement: Correspondence and Notes, 1978-1980


Box 80 Folder 7 The Judicial Code and Rules of Procedure in the Federal Courts, with Excerpts from the Criminal Code, Hart and Wechsler (1976 Revision, with annotations and marginalia by Herbert Wechsler), 1976



Box 81 Folder 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Contract, 1969 , 1972


Box 81 Folder 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Correspondence, 1966-1968


Box 81 Folder 3 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: General, 1969 , 1973


Box 81 Folder 4 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Memorandum, 1968


Box 81 Folder 5 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Permanent Committee, 1965-1967


Box 81 Folder 6 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Permanent Committee, 1969-1974


Box 81 Folder 7 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Permanent Committee: Annual Report, 1958


Box 81 Folder 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Permanent Committee: Meeting, 1967


Box 81 Folder 9 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Permanent Committee: Meeting, 1968


Box 81 Folder 10 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Permanent Committee: Meetings, 1970-1974


Box 81 Folder 11 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Report, 1966


Box 81 Folder 12 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Report, 1967


Box 81 Folder 13 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Report, 1969 , 1972


Box 81 Folder 14 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Report: Progress and Finances, 1968


Box 81 Folder 15 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court: Reviews and Articles, 1971-1973


Sub-series C: Special Lectures, 1958-1999



Box 82 Folder 1 Correspondence: General, 1980-1981


Box 82 Folder 2 Francis Biddle Lectures: General, 1972 , 1974


Box 82 Folder 3 Francis Biddle Lectures: Introduction, Undated


Box 82 Folder 4 Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture: "Revision and Codification of Penal Law in the U.S.", 1981


Box 82 Folder 5 Morals and the Constitution: The Sin of Obscenity Symposium: Comments and notes as moderator, Undated


Box 82 Folder 6 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture: Appointment and Announcements, 1958-1959


Box 82 Folder 7 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "The Nationalization of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights", 1968


Box 82 Folder 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "The Nationalization of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights", 1969


Box 82 Folder 9 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "The Nationalization of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights": Correspondence, 1969-1970


Box 82 Folder 10 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "The Nationalization of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights": Research and Notes, 1969


Box 82 Folder 11 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law", 1959


Box 82 Folder 12 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Annotations, Undated


Box 82 Folder 13 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Checklist of Supreme Court Decisions, Undated


Box 82 Folder 14 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Copyright, 1987 , 1989 , 1999


Box 82 Folder 15 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Clippings, 1959 , 1970-1980


Box 82 Folder 16 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Correspondence, 1959-1961 , 1980



Box 83 Folder 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Drafts with Edits and Notes, 1959


Box 83 Folder 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Editing Correspondence, 1958-1959


Box 83 Folder 3 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Excerpted in U.S. News and World Report and New York Times: Correspondence and Reaction, 1959-1961


Box 83 Folder 4 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law": Responses, Undated , 1959-1982 , 1996


Box 83 Folder 5 Rabinowitz-Rifkind Lecture on Law and Ethics, "Ethical Principles and Penal Legislation", 1971


Sub-series D: Speeches, 1941-1986



Box 84 Folder 1 Address to Entering Class, Columbia Law School, 1951


Box 84 Folder 2 ALI Annual Dinner, "Farewell Address", 1984


Box 84 Folder 3 ALI Dinner, 1959


Box 84 Folder 4 The Challenge of Penal Law Revision, Conference on Revision of Illinois Penal Code, Address, 1953


Box 84 Folder 5 Correctional Practices and the Law, 82nd Congress of Correction, Address, 1952


Box 84 Folder 6 Ethical Principles and Penal Legislation, Aaron Rabinowitz - Simon H. Rifkind Lecture on Law and Ethics, 1971


Box 84 Folder 7 A Federal Civil Service Program For Lawyers: The Work of the Board of Legal Examiners, American Bar Association, Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, 1941


Box 84 Folder 8 Federal Counsel Rules, American Bar Association, Undated


Box 84 Folder 9 The Future of Political and Intellectual Freedom: A Lawyer's Reflections, University of Virginia Sesquicentennial, 1969


Box 84 Folder 10 Harlan Fisk Stone Centennial Dinner, Address, 1972


Box 84 Folder 11 The Law and the Citizen, American Association of University Women, 59th General Meeting, 1965


Box 84 Folder 12 Law Day, Opening and Dinner Address, 1985


Box 84 Folder 13 Law, Morals, and Psychiatry: Old Problems and Recent Reassessments, New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry 37th Annual Meeting, Address, 1959


Box 84 Folder 14 Lawyers Under the United States Civil Service: The Work of the Board of Legal Examiners, Association of American Law Schools 39th Annual Meeting, Symposium on Lawyers Under the United States Civil Service, 1941


Box 84 Folder 15 Medal For Excellence receptions, Undated , 1971 , 1985


Box 84 Folder 16 Memorials: Biddle, Francis, 1968


Box 84 Folder 17 Memorials: Friendly, Judge Henry, 1986


Box 84 Folder 18 Memorials: General, Undated , 1980 , 1985


Box 84 Folder 19 Memorials: Hays, Paul R., 1971-1981


Box 84 Folder 20 Memorial: Parker, John J., 1958


Box 84 Folder 21 Memorial: Powell, Richard R.B., 1980


Box 84 Folder 22 Memorial: Stone, H.F., 1947 , 1966



Box 85 Folder 1 Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today, Remarks before screening, Association of American Law Schools Meeting, 1950


Box 85 Folder 2 Presenting Dr. William J. McGill for Installation as the 16th President, Columbia University Commencement, 1971


Box 85 Folder 3 The Relevancy of Neutral Principles, Federal Judicial Center, 1975


Box 85 Folder 4 Supreme Court (otherwise unidentified), Undated


Box 85 Folder 5 Treatment of the Major Offender, American Bar Association Meeting, Criminal Law Section, 1956


Box 85 Folder 6 Welcome to Dr. William J. McGill, 1972


Box 85 Folder 7 U.S. Senate on Foreign Relations: Hearing on Treaties with Canada and Mexico on the Execution of Penal Sentences, 1977


Box 85 Folder 8 U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Hearings on S. 679: Statement of Herbert Wechsler, 1979


Box 85 Folder 9 U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Statement for Subcommittee on Criminal Laws, 1971


Sub-series E: General Files, 1934-1985



Box 86 Folder 1 Columbia Law Review: Correspondence, 1937


Box 86 Folder 2 Contracts, 1934 , 1948 , 1968-1970


Box 86 Folder 3 Foundation Press, Inc.: Correspondence, 1939


Box 86 Folder 4 Foundation Press, Inc.: Correspondence, 1983


Box 86 Folder 5 Harvard University Press, 1956-1969


Box 86 Folder 6 Law Reviews and Other Periodicals (A-G): Correspondence, 1948-1978


Box 86 Folder 7 Law Reviews and Other Periodicals (H-M): Correspondence, 1948-1980


Box 86 Folder 8 Law Reviews and Other Periodicals (N-S): Correspondence, 1953-1980


Box 86 Folder 9 Law Reviews and Other Periodicals (T-Z): Correspondence, 1947-1977


Box 86 Folder 10 Letters to the Editor, 1935 , 1946-1950 , 1968-1980



Box 87 Folder 1 List of Publications by Herbert Wechsler, Undated , 1960-1985


Box 87 Folder 2 Little, Brown, and Company: Correspondence, 1959-1962


Box 87 Folder 3 Loose Notes, Undated


Box 87 Folder 4 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Abortion, Undated


Box 87 Folder 5 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Adultery and Bigamy, Undated


Box 87 Folder 6 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Assault, Undated


Box 87 Folder 7 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Conspiracy, Undated


Box 87 Folder 8 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Culpability and Liability, Undated


Box 87 Folder 9 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Homicide, Undated


Box 87 Folder 10 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Kidnapping and Child Stealing, Undated


Box 87 Folder 11 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Miscellaneous Offenses Grounded in Common Law, Undated


Box 87 Folder 12 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Miscellaneous "Statutory" Offenses, Undated



Box 87-A Folder 1 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Perjury, Undated


Box 87-A Folder 2 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Rape and Statuatory Rape, Undated


Box 87-A Folder 3 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Theft, Robbery, and Receiving Stolen Goods, Undated


Box 87-A Folder 4 Notes: Notecards on Cases: Unidentified Subjects, Undated


Box 87-A Folder 5 Requests for Articles and Quotes, 1954-1981


Box 87-A Folder 6 Royalties, 1942-1983


Box 87-A Folder 7 University of Pennsylvania Law Review: Correspondence, 1937


Box 87-A Folder 8 Yale Law Review: Correspondence, 1934-1937

Series IX: Honors and Awards, 1936-1993

Series IX: Honors and Awards (2 boxes, 1 linear foot) This small series relates to the awards and honors, including honorary degrees, which Herbert Wechsler received, and contains the correspondence and other documentation sorrounding these awards. For the actual certificates themselves as well as additional honors and awards, see Series XIII: Oversize Documents, Photos, and Ephemera.



Box 88 Folder 1 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1964


Box 88 Folder 2 American Bar Foundation, Fellows Award, 1967


Box 88 Folder 3 American Law Institute, Designation as Life Member, 1980


Box 88 Folder 4 City College of New York, 1936 , 1967


Box 88 Folder 5 City College of New York Alumni Association, Townsend Harris Medal, 1969


Box 88 Folder 6 College Board, Trustees Award, Undated


Box 88 Folder 7 Columbia University, Bicentennial Silver Medallion, 1954


Box 88 Folder 8 Columbia University Law School, Designation as Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, 1978


Box 88 Folder 9 Columbia University Law School, LL.D. (honorary), honoris causa, 1978


Box 88 Folder 10 Edwin Sutherland Award, 1963


Box 88 Folder 11 General Honors and Awards, 1963-1978 , 1981-1985 , 1993


Box 88 Folder 12 Georgetown University Law School, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 1984


Box 88 Folder 13 Harvard University Law School, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 1967



Box 89 Folder 1 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 1988


Box 89 Folder 2 Order of the Coif, Honorary Membership, 1983


Box 89 Folder 3 Oxford College Fellowship, 1969


Box 89 Folder 4 University of Chicago, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 1962


Box 89 Folder 5 Yale University, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 1990-1991

Series X: Correspondence, 1932-1997

Series X: Correspondence(13 boxes, 6.5 linear feet). The series of Wechsler's correspondence contains both personal and professional exchanges with a variety of people and organizations. Of particular note is Wechsler's lengthy correspondence with Francis Biddle, Justice Felix Frankfurter, academic criminologist Sir Leon Radzincowitz, and President Richard Nixon (regarding advice on the amendment to reduce the voting age to 18).



Box 90 Folder 1 A: General, Undated , 1933-1982


Box 90 Folder 2 Adler, Mortimer, 1934-1938


Box 90 Folder 3 Allen, James, 1933-1970


Box 90 Folder 4 American Academy of Sciences, 1964-1968 , 1976


Box 90 Folder 5 American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1978-1980


Box 90 Folder 6 Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1946-1947


Box 90 Folder 7 Attorney General of the United Stats of America, 1958 , 1976


Box 90 Folder 8 B: General, 1932-1934 , 1947-1950


Box 90 Folder 9 B: General, 1957-1984


Box 90 Folder 10 Baker, Joan, 1972-1977


Box 90 Folder 11 Baldwin, Frank B., III, 1967-1968



Box 91 Folder 1 Beatty, John C., Jr., 1947-1955 , 1965 , 1976


Box 91 Folder 2 Bickel, Alexander M., 1961


Box 91 Folder 3 Biddle, Francis, 1945 , 1947-1967


Box 91 Folder 4 Biddle, Francis: Regarding, 1968-1984


Box 91 Folder 5 Burger, Warren E., 1970-1971


Box 91 Folder 6 Birkett, Baron Norman, 1951-1955


Box 91 Folder 7 Black, Charles, 1965-1968


Box 91 Folder 8 Burling, John L. (Department of Justice), 1946-1950


Box 91 Folder 9 C: General, 1933-1939 , 1946-1950


Box 91 Folder 10 C: General, 1958-1981



Box 92 Folder 1 Chronological File, 1973


Box 92 Folder 2 Chronological File, 1974


Box 92 Folder 3 Chronological File, 1975


Box 92 Folder 4 City College Centennial Fund, 1946-1947


Box 92 Folder 5 Clare Committee Report, 1975-1976


Box 92 Folder 6 Clark, Ramsey, 1967


Box 92 Folder 7 Cohen, Felix S. (and wife), 1954-1955


Box 92 Folder 8 Committee of the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, 1947


Box 92 Folder 9 Conference on Crimes of Violence, 1949


Box 92 Folder 10 Cutler, Lloyd N., 1968


Box 92 Folder 11 Cutter, Amy R., 1959-1965 , 1975-1980



Box 93 Folder 1 D: General, 1950-1953


Box 93 Folder 2 D: General, 1954-1985


Box 93 Folder 3 Department of Justice, 1940, 1997


Box 93 Folder 4 Darrell, Norris, 1961-1976


Box 93 Folder 5 Doskowi, Ambrose, 1940-1948 , 1957


Box 93 Folder 6 Dowling, Noel T., 1947-1958 , 1963-1969


Box 93 Folder 7 Doyle, James E., 1946-1966 , 1971-1973 , 1981


Box 93 Folder 8 Dyke, Durward H., 1953-1959 , 1961-1968


Box 93 Folder 9 E: General, 1953-1981


Box 93 Folder 10 Elwyn-Jones, Baron Frederick, 1953-1956 , 1968-1976 , 1985


Box 93 Folder 11 Epstein, Eddie, 1941-1945


Box 93 Folder 12 F: General, 1934 , 1946-1980



Box 94 Folder 1 Foundation for the Establishment of the International Criminal Court, 1971


Box 94 Folder 2 Frankfurter, Justice Felix, Undated , 1934-1964


Box 94 Folder 3 Friendly, Henry, 1966 , 1969 , 1972-1976


Box 94 Folder 4 Freund, Paul A., 1952-1958 , 1961-1974


Box 94 Folder 5 G: General, 1934 , 1948-1980


Box 94 Folder 6 Gasch, Oliver, 1959


Box 94 Folder 7 Get-Well, 1990


Box 94 Folder 8 Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1983 , 1993


Box 94 Folder 9 Goldring, Benjamin, 1940-1941


Box 94 Folder 10 Gunther, Gerald, 1962-1965 , 1968-1972 , 1980


Box 94 Folder 11 Guttmacher, Dr. Manfred S., Undated , 1953-1955


Box 94 Folder 12 H: General, 1947-1952


Box 94 Folder 13 H: General, 1954-1998


Box 94 Folder 14 Hand, Learned: Regarding, 1955-1959 , 1962-1965 , 1970


Box 94 Folder 15 Hoover, J. Edgar, 1946 , 1948-1949


Box 94 Folder 16 Hufstedler, Shirly M., 1973 , 1979


Box 94 Folder 17 Humphrey, Hubert H., 1968



Box 95 Folder 1 Hall, Livingston, 1957-1962 , 1965


Box 95 Folder 2 Hart, Henry M. (includes writings by Hart), 1954-1975


Box 95 Folder 3 Hart, Henry M.: Regarding "The time Chart of the Justices," foreword for Supreme Court 1958 Term, 1959


Box 95 Folder 4 Hays, Paul R., 1941-1971


Box 95 Folder 5 I: General, 1955-1981


Box 95 Folder 6 J: General, 1947-1949


Box 95 Folder 7 J: General, 1955 , 1963-1965 , 1972-1982


Box 95 Folder 8 Jackson, Robert H., 1949-1953


Box 95 Folder 9 Jenkins, Gertrude, 1947


Box 95 Folder 10 Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1963-1965


Box 95 Folder 11 K: General, 1948-1950 , 1954-1982


Box 95 Folder 12 Kaplan, Benjamin, 1936 , 1954 , 1963-1973


Box 95 Folder 13 Kamisar, Yale, 1955-1958 , 1973


Box 95 Folder 14 Kennedy, John F., 1960 , 1963


Box 95 Folder 15 Kennedy, Robert F., 1967



Box 96 Folder 1 L: General, 1946-1998


Box 96 Folder 2 Langbein, Irwin L., 1953-1962


Box 96 Folder 3 Levene, Ricardo, 1961


Box 96 Folder 4 Leventhal, Harold, 1965-1976


Box 96 Folder 5 Levi, Edward H., 1953-1977


Box 96 Folder 6 Lewis, Anthony, 1957-1977


Box 96 Folder 7 Lindsay, John W., 1968


Box 96 Folder 8 Llewellyn, Karl N., 1971-1975


Box 96 Folder 9 Lopez-Rey, Manuel, 1964 , 1967


Box 96 Folder 10 Loss, Louis, 1979-1980



Box 97 Folder 1 M: General, 1946-1982


Box 97 Folder 2 Marbury, William L., 1968-1969 , 1977-1978


Box 97 Folder 3 McGowan, Carl, 1970-1981


Box 97 Folder 4 McGranery, James P., 1947-1958


Box 97 Folder 5 McKusick, Vincent L., 1977


Box 97 Folder 6 McClellan, John, 1976


Box 97 Folder 7 Mishkin, Paul J., 1953 , 1959-1972 , 1978


Box 97 Folder 8 Moody, Linda A., 1965-1972



Box 98 Folder 1 N: General, 1934 , 1954-1979 , 1991


Box 98 Folder 2 National Committee Against Repressive Legislation, 1988


Box 98 Folder 3 New York County Lawyers Association, 1935


Box 98 Folder 4 Nixon, Richard M.: Regarding Minimum Voting Age, 1970


Box 98 Folder 5 O: General, Undated , 1937 , 1947-1952


Box 98 Folder 6 O: General, 1963-1965 , 1970-1977 , 1981


Box 98 Folder 7 O'Dwyer, William, 1947-1950


Box 98 Folder 8 P: General, 1934 , 1947-1951


Box 98 Folder 9 P: General, 1957 , 1963-1976


Box 98 Folder 10 Powell, Thomas Reed, 1946


Box 98 Folder 11 Prosser, William L., 1949 , 1955



Box 99 Folder 1 R: General, 1940 , 1946-1948


Box 99 Folder 2 R: General, 1955-1959


Box 99 Folder 3 Radzinowicz, Sir Leon, 1948-1952 , 1956-1962


Box 99 Folder 4 Radzinowicz, Sir Leon, 1963-1964


Box 99 Folder 5 Radzinowicz, Sir Leon, 1965-1967


Box 99 Folder 6 Radzinowicz, Sir Leon: Festschrift, 1972-1975 , 1979


Box 99 Folder 7 Reisman, David, 1939



Box 100 Folder 1 Rockefeller, Nelson D., 1968


Box 100 Folder 2 Rutledge, Wiley B.: Regarding, 1950-1951


Box 100 Folder 3 Rostow, Eugene, 1955 , 1957 , 1961-1962


Box 100 Folder 4 Rowe, James H., 1956-1973


Box 100 Folder 5 Russel Sage Foundation, 1940 , 1950


Box 100 Folder 6 S: General, Undated , 1934-1950


Box 100 Folder 7 S: General, 1955-1980


Box 100 Folder 8 Segal, Bernard G., 1968-1979


Box 100 Folder 9 Seymour, Whitney North, 1971


Box 100 Folder 10 Sobell, Morton: Regarding, 1956-1957 , 1966


Box 100 Folder 11 Solomon, Harold W., 1959-1967


Box 100 Folder 12 Stroock, Alan (Bill) M., 1954-1957


Box 100 Folder 13 Stone, Harlan Fisk, 1932-1940 , 1958 , 1975-1980


Box 100 Folder 14 Stone, Harlan Fisk: Regarding, 1946-1948


Box 100 Folder 15 Supreme Court, 1946-1958 , 1960-1961 , 1970



Box 101 Folder 1 T: General, 1940-1952


Box 101 Folder 2 T: General, 1966 , 1971-1980


Box 101 Folder 3 Taylor, Telford, 1947-1962


Box 101 Folder 4 Thank You's and "Fan Mail", 1957-1991


Box 101 Folder 5 Traynor, Madeline, 1984-1986


Box 101 Folder 6 Truman, Harry S., 1948 , 1972


Box 101 Folder 7 Tweed, Harrison, 1950-1977


Box 101 Folder 8 U: General, 1957 , 1970-1977 , 1980


Box 101 Folder 9 Uebersee Finanz Korporation case, 1946-1950


Box 101 Folder 10 Unidentified, Undated , 1933-1991


Box 101 Folder 11 United States Congress, 1939 , 1958-1978


Box 101 Folder 12 United States Senate: Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, 1968-1969 , 1973-1974


Box 101 Folder 13 University of Pennsylvania, 1956-1957



Box 102 Folder 1 V: General, 1957 , 1965-1968 , 1973-1978


Box 102 Folder 2 W: General, 1931 , 1946-1952


Box 102 Folder 3 W: General, 1953-1981 , 1991


Box 102 Folder 4 Wagner, Robert F., 1938 , 1965


Box 102 Folder 5 Waelder, Robert, 1959 , 1961


Box 102 Folder 6 Webster, Bethuel M., 1953 , 1959


Box 102 Folder 7 Weinstein, Jack B., 1964-1969 , 1975-1979


Box 102 Folder 8 West Publishing Company, 1933-1934 , 1964-1980


Box 102 Folder 9 White, Morton, 1955-1968 , 1973-1975


Box 102 Folder 10 White, Morton: Regarding The Institute for Advanced Study, 1973-1974


Box 102 Folder 11 Wisdom, John Minor: Regarding Splitting of the Fifth Circuit Court, 1964 , 1971


Box 102 Folder 12 Wolfe, Albert, 1973


Box 102 Folder 13 World Peace Through Law Center, 1965 , 1977


Box 102 Folder 14 Weinfeld, Edward, 1950-1964


Box 102 Folder 15 Wyzanski, Charles, 1948-1964 , 1967-1968


Box 102 Folder 16 Z: Genereal, 1965

Series XI: Subject Files, 1936-1999

Series XI: Subject Files (9 boxes, 4.5 linear feet). This series contains various other files held by Wechsler corresponding to his life, work, and points of interest. These are from his personal files that do not fall into the other Series in the collection and contain clippings, notes, and other documentation on matters legal and otherwise. Also within this series is an oral history of Wechsler's, documented by Columbia University.



Box 103 Folder 1 Abortion, 1973


Box 103 Folder 2 Association of American Law Schools, Special Committee, 1964-1965


Box 103 Folder 3 Biographies, 1964 , 1996


Box 103 Folder 4 Bartlet, Richard, 1967 , 1973-1975


Box 103 Folder 5 Black, Hugo L., Undated , 1956 , 1968-1972


Box 103 Folder 6 Brandeis, Louis D., Undated , 1957-1958


Box 103 Folder 7 Breitel, Charles D., 1966-1977


Box 103 Folder 8 Burger, Warren E., 1970-1981


Box 103 Folder 9 Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan, 1932 , 1938 , 1979


Box 103 Folder 10 Channel 13, 1962


Box 103 Folder 11 Clarke, John Hessin, 1952


Box 103 Folder 12 Clippings: General, 1967


Box 103 Folder 13 Clippings: General, 1968


Box 103 Folder 14 Clippings: General, 1970-1979


Box 103 Folder 15 Communism, Undated


Box 103 Folder 16 Criminal Law, Undated , 1960 , 1984-1985



Box 104 Folder 1 Criminal Law: Adolescents, 1940 , 1982


Box 104 Folder 2 Criminal Law: General Principles, 1937 , 1956-1989


Box 104 Folder 3 Criminal Law: Insanity Defense, 1979 , 1982-1984


Box 104 Folder 4 Criminal Law: International, 1984-1991


Box 104 Folder 5 Death Penalty, 1984-1993


Box 104 Folder 6 Dewey, Thomas E., Undated


Box 104 Folder 7 Douglas, William O., 1945 , 1965-1974 , 1980


Box 104 Folder 8 Federal Bar Association: Francis Biddle speech in honor of Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1941



Box 105 Folder 1 Fortas, Abe, 1967-1969


Box 105 Folder 2 Frankfurter, Felix, Undated , 1942-1970


Box 105 Folder 3 Friendly, Henry Jacob, Undated , 1977 , 1986-1989


Box 105 Folder 4 Griswold, Erwin N., 1967 , 1971-1974


Box 105 Folder 5 Habeas Corpus, 1980-2001


Box 105 Folder 6 Harlan, John Marshall, 1965 , 1971-1972


Box 105 Folder 7 Herbert Wechsler Professorship, 1995-1998


Box 105 Folder 8 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1939 , 1950 , 1963-1964


Box 105 Folder 9 International Law, 1990-1991



Box 106 Folder 1 Jackson, Robert H., Undated , 1953-1955 , 1974


Box 106 Folder 2 Jackson, Robert H.: Resolutions in Honor of (including drafts and correspondence), 1955


Box 106 Folder 3 Judicial Financial Disclosure, 1976 , 1979


Box 106 Folder 4 Jurisprudence, 1983 , 1988-1989 , 1991


Box 106 Folder 6 Keaton v. Hustler, 1983



Box 107 Folder 1 Law Enforcement and Deadly Force, 1976-1982


Box 107 Folder 2 Law Revision, 1965-1969


Box 107 Folder 3 Legal Codes, Undated , 1987-1990


Box 107 Folder 4 Libel: Kennedy v. Mid-Continent Telecasting, Inc., 1964


Box 107 Folder 5 Libel: Kennedy v. Mid-Continent Telecasting, Inc., 1965


Box 107 Folder 6 Libel: Gendusa v. Mid-Continent Telecasting, Inc., 1965


Box 107 Folder 7 Libel: General, 1961-1971


Box 107 Folder 8 Libel: General, 1977-1979



Box 108 Folder 1 Marshall, John, 1899 , 1965-1966


Box 108 Folder 2 McReynolds, James Clark: Memorial, 1947


Box 108 Folder 3 Model Banking Act, 1950


Box 108 Folder 4 Obituaries and Memorials, Undated , 1973-1985 , 1993-2002


Box 108 Folder 5 Oral History, 1981-1987 , 1992-1993


Box 108 Folder 6 Oral History: Book on New Deal, 1983


Box 108 Folder 7 Oral History: "Reminiscences of Herbert Wechsler" (Oral History Research Office, Columbia University), 1982


Box 108 Folder 8 Personal: IDs and Passports, 1966-1995


Box 108 Folder 9 Powell, Lewis F., 1976-1977



Box 109 Folder 1 Prisoner Exchange Treaties, 1976-1980


Box 109 Folder 2 Robinson v. Ariyoshi, 1979


Box 109 Folder 3 Rosenbergs, 1976


Box 109 Folder 4 Rothschild, Baron Victor, 1973


Box 109 Folder 5 Rutledge, Justice Wiley B., Undated , 1946-1951


Box 109 Folder 6 Sentencing and Correction, 1968 , 1983-1987


Box 109 Folder 7 Sentencing and Correction: Guidelines, Undated , 1968 , 1986-1990



Box 110 Folder 1 Stone, H.F., 1947-1987


Box 110 Folder 2 Supreme Court: General, Undated , 1936-1950


Box 110 Folder 3 Supreme Court, 1964-1971


Box 110 Folder 4 Taylor, Telford, 1998-1999



Box 111 Folder 1 Tributes, Undated , 1971 , 1983-1999


Box 111 Folder 2 In Honor of Professor Herbert Wechsler, Columbia Law Review 78:5 (June, 1978): 947-972., 1978


Box 111 Folder 3 Unison, Fred. M. (Supreme Court), Undated , 1954


Box 111 Folder 4 Warren, Earl (Supreme Court), 1968-1974


Box 111 Folder 5 Wechsler, Herbert: Clippings and articles regarding, 1954-1980 , 1998


Box 111 Folder 6 White, Byron Raymond (Supreme Court), 1965 , 1972


Box 111 Folder 7 Who's Who, Undated


Box 111 Folder 8 Wolkin, Paul A., 1992 , 1995


Box 111 Folder 9 Wright, Charles Alan, 1987-1991 , 1998

Series XII: Oversize Documents, Photos, and Ephemera, 1928-1984

Series XII: Oversize Documents, Photos, and Ephemera (3 boxes, 1.75 linear feet). This series collects the loose photos, ephemera, and documents that were too large for the other boxes in the collection. It is divided into three sub-series (A: Photos, B: Large Documents, and C: Largest Documents) mostly according to size. Sub-series B and C are arranged according to date. This includes many of the awards and honorary degrees that Wechsler received. Some of the photo subjects include Francis Biddle, the Nuremberg trials and of course Wechsler himself.


Sub-series A: Photos and Prints, 1941-1970



Box 112 Folder 1 Groups (Harvard, White House), Undated


Box 112 Folder 2 Individuals (Francis Biddle, John J. Parker, Robert F. Wagner, Robert H. Jackson, several unidentified), Undated , 1941


Box 112 Folder 3 International Military Tribunal, Undated


Box 112 Folder 4 Nuremberg Courtroom (owned by LIFE magazine), 1945


Box 112 Folder 5 Nuremberg (Francis Biddle, accommodations), 1946


Box 112 Folder 6 Wechsler, Herbert, Undated , 1984


Box 112 Folder 7 Wechsler, Herbert: "Bicentennial Conference on the United States Constitution" (main hall of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA), Apr 5-8, 1976


Box 112 Folder 8 Wechsler, Herbert (LIFE Magazine), Undated , 1959 , 1970


Box 112 Folder 9 Unidentified (extra large), Undated


Sub-series B: Large Materials, 1965-1984



Box 113 Folder 1 Photo: Group (White House), Undated


Box 113 Folder 2 Photo: Wechsler, Herbert, Undated


Box 113 Folder 3 Portrait: Wechsler, Herbert, Undated


Box 113 Folder 4 Institute of Juridical Administration, Membership Admittance, 1965


Box 113 Folder 5 Harvard University, Legum Doctorem (honoris causa), 1967


Box 113 Folder 6 City College of New York, Townsend Harris Medal, 1969


Box 113 Folder 7 Columbia University, Doctoris in Legibus, 1978


Box 113 Folder 8 Georgetown College, Legum Doctorem (honoris causa), 1984


Sub-series C: Largest and Odd Shaped Materials, 1928-1966



Box 114 Item 1 Head shot photo printing block, Undated


Box 114 Item 2 Japanese Scrolls, Undated


Box 114 Item 3 City College of New York, Bachelor of Arts, 1928


Box 114 Item 4 Columbia University Law School, Bachelor of Law, 1931


Box 114 Item 5 Columbia University Law School, Robert Noxon Toppan Prize in Constitutional Law, 1930


Box 114 Item 6 Columbia University Law School, James Kent Scholarship for Distinction as a Student, 1931


Box 114 Item 7 Columbia University Law School, Ordronaux Prize for Proficiency in Legal Studies, 1931


Box 114 Item 8 Supreme Court Attorney Confirmation, 1937


Box 114 Item 9 Temporary City Housing Rent Commission Appointment, 1948


Box 114 Item 10 Temporary city Housing Rent Commission Appointment, 1950


Box 114 Item 11 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member Admittance, 1964


Box 114 Item 12 New York City Board of Higher Education, Appointment by Mayor, 1964


Box 114 Item 13 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, Permanent Committee, Appointment by President Johnson, 1966

Series XIII: Wechsler Family Papers, 1929-1974

Series XIII: Family Papers (1 box, 0.5 linear feet). This series holds the papers of other Wechsler family members which Wechsler held, including correspondence with his father, some documents belonging to Doris Wechsler, and the yearbooks belonging to Herbert's brother James.



Box 115 Folder 1 Wechsler, Doris (wife), 1933 , 1958


Box 115 Folder 2 Wechsler, James (brother): Correspondence, 1947-1974


Box 115 Folder 3 Wechsler, James (brother): "Crimson and Gold," Townsend Harris Hall Yearbook, Jan 1929


Box 115 Folder 4 Wechsler, James (brother): "Crimson and Gold," Townsend Harris Hall Yearbook, Jun 1929


Box 115 Folder 5 Wechsler, James (brother): "Crimson and Gold," Townsend Harris Hall Yearbook, Jun 1930


Box 115 Folder 6 Wechsler, Samuel (father): Correspondence, Undated

Series XIV: Closed Documents, 1933-1985

Series XIV: Closed Documents (4 boxes, 2 linear feet). This series contains files that are closed for personal or legal reasons.



Box 116 Folder 1 Teaching: Clerkship Recommendations, 1968-1969


Box 116 Folder 2 Teaching: Council of Tenured Faculty, 1970


Box 116 Folder 3 Teaching: Election of Dean, 1969-1970


Box 116 Folder 4 Teaching: "Criminal Law and Procedure": Syllabus, 1933-1934


Box 116 Folder 5 Teaching: "Federal Courts and the Federal System": Seminar Essays, 1954


Box 116 Folder 6 Teaching: General Teaching Materials (A-G), 1954-1980


Box 116 Folder 7 Teaching: General Teaching Materials (H-W), 1964-1980


Box 116 Folder 8 Teaching: Graduate Students, 1956-1963


Box 116 Folder 9 Teaching: Jobson, Professor Keith B.: Student Correspondence, 1965-1973


Box 116 Folder 10 Teaching: Law Faculty: Memorandum, Undated


Box 116 Folder 11 Teaching: Morris, Allison: Student Correspondence, 1968


Box 116 Folder 12 Teaching: Sovern, Michael I.: Correspondence, 1969-1980


Box 116 Folder 13 Teaching: Student Applications for Employment, 1965-1966


Box 116 Folder 14 Teaching: Student Papers: Psychiatry and the Law, Undated , 1949-1956



Box 117 Folder 1 Legal Work: Aleinikoff, Elizabeth W.: Elizabeth Aleinikoff Trust, 1949


Box 117 Folder 2 Legal Work: Combustion Engineering Case: Legal Memorandum, 1974


Box 117 Folder 3 Legal Work: Combustion Engineering Case: Correspondence I, 1974


Box 117 Folder 4 Legal Work: Combustion Engineering Case: Correspondence II, 1974


Box 117 Folder 5 Legal Work: Combustion Engineering Case: Correspondence III, 1974


Box 117 Folder 6 Legal Work: Correspondence, 1936-1982


Box 117 Folder 7 Legal Work: Fees, 1964-1980


Box 117 Folder 8 Legal Work: Lerhman v. Flynt et. al., 1984-1985


Box 117 Folder 9 Legal Work: Mekdeci v. Richardson Merrel, Inc., 1981



Box 118 Folder 1 Legal Work: Stern, Margaret: Private legal matter, 1946


Box 118 Folder 2 Legal Work: Stern, Moses: Last Will, 1954


Box 118 Folder 3 Legal Work: Stewart, Margot S., 1960


Box 118 Folder 4 Legal Work: Sprouse, James: Clay Communications Inc. v.: Correspondence and Legal Documents (I), 1975


Box 118 Folder 5 Legal Work: Sprouse, James: Clay Communications Inc. v.: Correspondence and Legal Documents (II), 1975


Box 118 Folder 6 Legal Work: Wechsler, Elzie: Rivers Matter, 1962


Box 118 Folder 7 Legal Work: Wise, Josephine May: Last Will, 1922-1955



Box 119 Folder 1 Correspondence: Employment Applications., 1963-1964


Box 119 Folder 2 Correspondence: Landis, James M., 1963-1964


Box 119 Folder 3 Correspondence: Letters of Recommendation (A-E), 1957-1977


Box 119 Folder 4 Correspondence: Letters of Recommendation (F-K), 1942-1979


Box 119 Folder 5 Correspondence: Letters of Recommendation (L-O), 1954-1974


Box 119 Folder 6 Correspondence: Letters of Recommendation (P-Z), 1951-1974


Box 119 Folder 7 Correspondence: Man, Albon P. (conscientious objector), 1950-1951


Box 119 Folder 8 Correspondence: Reisman, David, 1939-1951


Box 119 Folder 9 Correspondence: Rhetts, Edward, 1942-1957


Box 119 Folder 10 Correspondence: Yeager, John Jacques, 1948-1949


Box 119 Folder 11 Family: Wechsler, Samuel (father): Recommendation to Department of Justice, 1939


Box 119 Folder 12 Subject Files: Biddle, Francis: Estate: Affadavit, 1973

Series XV: Unprocessed Addition, 2014

98 Linear Feet; 98 RCs

Series XVI: Unprocessed Addition, 2016

125 Linear Feet; 125 RC