Wigmore, John Henry (1863-1943)

US law educator. He was noted for his prolific legal writings, chief of which is his ten-volume Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence (1940, 3rd ed). He was a founder and first president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology (1909-10). Wigmore was born in San Francisco, California. Educated at Harvard University, and fluent in many languages, he taught law in Tokyo, Japan (1889-92). In 1893 he became a law professor at Northwestern University, becoming dean of its law school (1901-29).