Wechsler was a long-time Columbia professor who managed to be at the center of a lot of major legal disputes in several different fields. From 1944 to 1946, Wechsler was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the War Division of DOJ, and during that time was in charge of the infamous Korematsu case for the government. He advised the American judges during the Nuremberg trials. In criminal law, he was the leading architect of the vastly influential Model Penal Code. He co-authored with Henry Hart the casebook that invented the field of Federal Courts, still in publication today. He authored one of the most-cited law review articles of all time, Towards Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law. Finally, he litigated and won New York Times v. Sullivan, the famous First Amendment case.
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Wechsler was a long-time Columbia professor who managed to be at the center of a lot of major legal disputes in several different fields. From 1944 to 1946, Wechsler was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the War Division of DOJ, and during that time was in charge of the infamous Korematsu case for the government. He advised the American judges during the Nuremberg trials. In criminal law, he was the leading architect of the vastly influential Model Penal Code. He co-authored with Henry Hart the casebook that invented the field of Federal Courts, still in publication today. He authored one of the most-cited law review articles of all time, Towards Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law. Finally, he litigated and won New York Times v. Sullivan, the famous First Amendment case.
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554
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16
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Cited by Cases (5+ Years)
291
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508
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ScholarRank
75
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Average Citations per Article
211.73
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Average Citations per Document
127.04
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Self-Citations
15
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H-Index
20.00
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