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Herbert WechslerHerbert Wechsler (19092000) was a legal scholar and former director of the American Law Institute (ALI). 1931 graduate of Columbia Law School where he served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. Argued the seminal case New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, in which Justice Brennan held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments barred awards of damages to a public official for defamation relating to his official conduct unless he proves "actual malice." Works Herbert Wechsler, Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law, 73 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1959) Wechsler, Herbert Wechsler, Herbert
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