Background
Albert W. Alschuler was born on September 24, 1940, in Aurora, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Sam and Winifred Alschuler.
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
In 1962 Albert W. Alschuler received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Harvard College.
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
In 1965 Albert W. Alschuler obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School.
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
In 1962 Albert W. Alschuler received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Harvard College.
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
In 1965 Albert W. Alschuler obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School.
(Challenging the accounts of John Henry Wigmore and Leonar...)
Challenging the accounts of John Henry Wigmore and Leonard W. Levy, this history of the privilege against self-incrimination demonstrates that what has sometimes been taken to be an unchanging tenet of our legal system has actually encompassed many different legal consequences in a history that reaches back to the Middle Ages.
https://www.amazon.com/Privilege-against-Self-Incrimination-Origins-Development/dp/0226326608/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised...)
In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised as "the only great American legal thinker" and "the most illustrious figure in the history of American law." But in Albert Alschuler's critique of both Justice Holmes and contemporary legal scholarship, a darker portrait is painted - that of a man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favored eugenics, and, as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might makes right."
https://www.amazon.com/Law-Without-Values-Legacy-Justice/dp/0226015211/?tag=2022091-20
2000
Albert W. Alschuler was born on September 24, 1940, in Aurora, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Sam and Winifred Alschuler.
In 1962 Albert W. Alschuler received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Harvard College. In 1965 he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School.
In 1965 Albert W. Alschuler was admitted to the bar. From 1966 to 1967 he served as an assistant professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, an associate professor of law from 1969 to 1970, and a professor of law from 1970 to 1976. From 1973 to 1974 he was a visiting professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a professor of law from 1976 to 1984.
In 1975 he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. From 1985 to 1988 Alschuler was a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, the Wilson-Dickinson Professor from 1988 to 2002, the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology from 2002 to 2006, and became the Julius Kreeger Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminology in 2006. Since 2006 he has been a professor of law at Northwestern University Law School.
Alschuler has written on plea bargaining, sentencing reform, privacy, search and seizure, civil procedure, jury selection, legal history, legal ethics, confessions, courtroom conduct, William Blackstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, American legal theory, and other topics, most of them in the area of criminal justice.
(In recent decades, Oliver Wendell Holmes has been praised...)
2000(Challenging the accounts of John Henry Wigmore and Leonar...)
1997On March 21, 1970, Albert W. Alschuler married Louise Evans. They have a son, Samuel Jonathan. In 1977 they divorced. On June 25, 1994, he married Penelope Bryan.
