biography
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| lived:
| (1909–2000)
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| biography:
| Assistant attorney general and criminal law adviser, born in New York City, New York, USA. As assistant attorney general, he helped establish the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1945) and served as technical adviser to the tribunal judge. Counsel in many important Supreme Court cases, and a professor at Columbia Law School (1933), he assisted drafting the federal rules of criminal procedure and the revised penal law and code of criminal procedure for New York State, as well as assisting in revision of the federal appellate court system. He directed the Institute of American Law for 20 years and wrote many books and articles. His 1953 case book The Federal Courts and the Federal System (co-written with Henry Melvin Hart) became a standard legal text. |
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