James Harmon Chadbourn (born Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1905; died, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982) was an American legal scholar and an expert in civil procedure, Federal jurisdiction and evidence.
[1][2] He was a Fessenden Professor of law at Harvard University from 1963 until his retirement in 1974.
from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in 1926.He received an LL.B.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1931.
Assistant Professor & ---, University of North Carolina School of Law, 19-- - 19-- Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 1940-1950 Professor, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, 1950-1963 Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, 1961-1963 Fessenden Professor of Law, Harvard Law School 1963-1974 Books, treatises, casebooks & reports: Chadbourn revised seven volumes (turning them into eight) of the third edition of the classic treatise John H. Wigmore, Evidence in Trials at Common Law (3d ed.