John Henry Wigmore, who lived from 1863 to 1943, was an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his expertise in the law of evidence and for his influential scholarship. He taught law at Keio University in Tokyo from 1889 to 1892 before becoming the first full time dean of Northwestern Law School, serving from 1901 to 1929. His scholarship is best remembered for his Treatise on the Anglo American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law, published in 1904 and often called Wigmore on Evidence, and for a graphical analysis method known as a Wigmore chart. He served as the second president of the American Association of University Professors.
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Wigmore articulated the doctrine of chances rationale in his treatise on Anglo-American evidence law.
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