[6] At the journal's founding John Henry Wigmore, the first full-time Dean of Northwestern Law School, was a frequent contributor.

Wigmore penned "adversarial editorials that directly addressed the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States and the 'cowardly' members of the Chicago Bar Association.

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