Author:John Henry Wigmore

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John Henry Wigmore
(1863–1943)
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U.S. jurist and expert in the law of evidence

John Henry Wigmore

Works

  • The Australian Ballot System (1889) (external scan)
  • A Digest of the Reported Decisions, Precedents and General Principles Enunciated by the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1888) (external scan)
  • Notes on Land Tenure and Local Institutions in Old Japan (external scan)
  • Materials for the Study of Private Law in Old Japan (1892) (external scan) (parts 1–3) (external scan) (part 4) (external scan) (part 5) [eight parts planned]
  • Examinations in Law (1899) (external scan)
  • Simon Greenleaf, A Treatise on the Law of Evidence (16th ed., 1899) (external scan) (only edited volume 1 of 3)
  • A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (1905) (external scan) (4 vols. plus 1908, 1915 supplements)
  • A Selection of Cases on Evidence (1906) (external scan)
    • 2d ed. (1913) (external scan)
    • 3d ed. (1932), Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R257269
  • Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History (1907–1909) (external scan)
  • A Preliminary Bibliography of Modern Criminal Law and Criminology (1909) (external scan)
  • A Pocket Code of the Rules of Evidence in Trials at Law (1910) (external scan)
    • 2d ed. (1935), Copyrighted in the United States until 2031 due to Renewal R310846
    • 3d ed. (1942), Copyrighted in the United States until 2038 due to Renewal R469604
  • Introduction to Albert Sherman Osborn, Questioned Documents (1910) (external scan)
  • A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental Legal History (1912) (external scan)
  • Select Cases on the Law of Torts (1912) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • Introduction to John C. Reed, Conduct of Lawsuits (2d ed., 1912) (external scan)
  • The Principles of Judicial Proof (1913) (external scan)
    • 2d ed. (1931), Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to Renewal R228890
  • Lyrics of a Lawyer's Leisure (1914) (external scan)
  • “An Account of a Course in Problems of Contemporary Legislation” (1914) (external scan)
  • Introduction to Henry Bixby Hemenway, Legal Principles of Public Health Administration (1914) (external scan)
  • With Albert Kocourek: Evolution of Law: Selected Readings on the Origin and Development of Legal Institutions. 3 volumes. (1915-1918)
    • Volume 1: Sources of Ancient and Primitive Law (1915) [1] [2]
    • Volume 2: Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions (1915) [3] [4] [5] [6]
    • Volume 3: Formative Influences of Legal Development (1918) [7] [8] [9]
  • “A Proposal to Restore the True Status of French Science and Learning in America” (1916) (external scan)
  • Science and Learning in France (1917) (external scan)
  • The Progress of Continental Law in the Nineteenth Century (1918) (external scan)
  • Preface to A Source-Book of Military Law and War-Time Legislation (1919) (external scan)
  • Problems of Law (1920) (external scan)
  • Introduction to Arthur Train, The Prisoner at the Bar (1922 ed.) (external scan)
  • Introduction to Clarence C. Crawford, A Guide to the Study of the History of English Law and Procedure (1923) (external scan)
  • Report of the Dean of the Faculty of Law on an Educational Survey 1925 (1927) (external scan)
  • A Panorama of the World's Legal Systems (1928) (external scan)
    • Library ed. (1936), Copyrighted in the United States until 2032 due to Renewal R318297
  • The Science of Judicial Proof (3d ed., 1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031 due to Renewal R350341
  • A Guide to American International Law and Practice (1943) (external scan)

Articles

  • “Local Government in Japan,” Nation, 51(1305), 8–10 (1890) (external scan)
  • “Representative Institutions in Japan,” Nation, 51(1308), 68–69 (1890) (external scan)
  • “Political Parties in Japan,” Nation, 51(1312), 145–146 (1890) (external scan)
  • “The New Parliament in Japan,” Nation, 51(1318), 265–266 (1890) (external scan)
  • “Notes on Land Tenure and Local Institutions in Old Japan,” TASJ, 19(1), 37–270 (1890) (external scan)
  • “The Reaction in Japan,” Nation, 52(1342), 237 (1891) (external scan)
  • “Starting a Parliament in Japan,” Scribner’s Magazine, 10(1), 33–51 (1891) (external scan)
  • “Parliamentary Days in Japan,” Scribner’s Magazine, 10(2), 243–255 (1891) (external scan)
  • “Note on the ‘Eiraku-sen,’” TASJ, 19(2), 501–504 (1891) (external scan)
  • “Legal System of Old Japan,” Green Bag, 4(9), 403–411 (1892) (transcription project)
  • “Legal System of Old Japan,” Green Bag, 4(10), 478–484 (1892) (transcription project)
  • “Japanese Causes Célèbres,” Green Bag, 4(12), 563–566 (1892) (transcription project)
  • “Parliamentary Affairs in Japan,” Nation, 54(1388), 85–86 (1892) (external scan)
  • “Legal Education in Modern Japan,” Green Bag, 5(1), 17–33 (1893) (transcription project)
  • “Legal Education in Modern Japan,” Green Bag, 5(2), 78–85 (1893) (transcription project)
  • “Foreign Jurisdiction in Japan,” Nation, 56(1437), 26–27 (1893) (external scan)
  • “American Naturalization and the Japanese,” American Law Review, 28, 818–827 (1894) (external scan)
  • “Japanese Causes Célèbres,” Green Bag, 9(8), 359–362 (1897) (transcription project)
  • “The Administration of Justice in Japan,” American Law Register and Review, 45(7), 437–449 (1897) (external scan)
  • “Japanese Causes Célèbres,” Green Bag, 10(7), 287–289 (1898) (transcription project)
  • “A List of Legal Novels,” Illinois Law Review, 2(9), 574–593 (1908) (external scan)
  • “The Bill to Make Compensation to Persons Erroneously Convicted of Crime,” Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 3(5), 665–667 (1913) (external scan)
  • “Problems of the Law’s Evolution,” Virginia Law Review, 4(4), 247–272 (1917) (external scan)
  • “Problems of the Law’s Mechanism in America,” Virginia Law Review, 4(5), 337–352 (1917) (external scan)
  • “Problems of World-Legislation and America’s Share Therein,” Virginia Law Review, 4(5), 423–436 (1917) (external scan)
  • “Some Lessons for Civilian Justice to Be Learned from Military Justice,” Virginia Law Review, 5(6), 424–430 (1919) (external scan)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1943, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 81 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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