This first installment of the American Law Institute's Audiovisual History is an edited transcript of an interview with Director Emeritus Herbert Wechsler. The interview, which was videotaped at Professor Wechsler’s residence in New York City on April 23, 1989, was conducted by Paul A. Wolkin. It includes Professor Wechsler’s candid reflections on both his years as Chief Reporter for the Institute’s Model Penal Code and his tenure from 1963 to 1984 as the Institute’s third Director.

This interview with Homer Kripke—the late emeritus member of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code and a participant in the drafting of the Code almost from its inception—constitutes the second installment in The American Law Institute’s Audiovisual History Series. In this September 1989 interview conducted by Paul A. Wolkin, Professor Kripke reflects candidly on the personalities and events surrounding the development of both the UCC and the Institute’s Federal Securities Code, for which he served as an Adviser.