Title: Wechsler's Century and Ours: Reforming Criminal Law in a Time of Shifting Rationalities of Government
Abstract: Herbert Wechsler, who died in 2000 at over 90, led a life in the law that could well define the legal twentieth century in America.Students today might first encounter him as a constitutional scholar whose article "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law" 2 was for decades discussed as the most principled intellectual criticism of the Supreme Court's greatest twentieth century decision, Brown v. Board of Education. 3 Wechsler was one of the leading exponents of the legal process school that dominated academic law in the 1950s and 1960s. 4 Along with Herbert Hart, Wechsler was the original co-