(1863–1943) law educator; born in San Francisco. Educated at Harvard, fluent in many languages, he 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 his ten-volume Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence (3rd ed. 1940). He was a founder and first president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology (1909–10).
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