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).