Herbert Wechsler
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Herbert Wechsler served from 1963 to 1984 as the Institute’s third Director. Co-author of seminal casebooks that reshaped thinking about the federal courts and criminal law and author of the celebrated Holmes lecture at Harvard, “Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law,” Wechsler also served as Chief Reporter for the Institute’s Model Penal Code during the decade that brought that highly influential project to its conclusion. Wechsler’s wife, Doris Wechsler, herself a lawyer and member of the Institute, often noted that he considered the Model Code his proudest achievement.