biography
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Wigmore, John Henry
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| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1943)
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| biography:
| Law educator, born in San Francisco, California, USA. He studied at Harvard, was fluent in many languages, and taught law in Tokyo (1889–92). In 1893 he became a law professor at Northwestern University, becoming dean of its law school (1901–29). He was noted for his prolific legal writings, chief of which is Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence (10 vols, 1904–5; 3rd edn 1940). He was a founder and first president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology (1909–10). |
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