About James H. Chadbourn
Lived 1905 – 1982 (aged 76–77). James H. Chadbourn was an American lawyer and jurist.
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.
Education Chadbourn received a B.A. 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.
Employment 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
Publications
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. 1940).
J. Chabourn, Lynching and the Law (1933), reprinted in 2008 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd; T. Atkinson & J. Chadbourn, Cases and Other Materials on Civil Procedure (1948); T. Atkinson & J. Chadbourn, Introduction to Civil Procedure (1948); J. Chadbourn, L. Levin & P. Shuchman, Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (2d ed. 1974) (original edition published by Chadbourn and Levin in 1961); R. Magill & J. Chadbourn, Cases and Civil Procedure Preface (3d ed. 1939); J. Chadbourn & L. Levin, Procedure Portfolio: Pleadings, Process and Appeal Papers in Facsimile (1962); J. Chadbourn, H. Grossman & A. Van Alstyne, California Pleading -- Civil Actions (1961); J. Chadbourn, A. Van Alstyne & H. Grossman, California Discovery Practice (1972); C. McCormick, J. Chadbourn & C. Wright, Cases and Materials on Federal Courts (6th ed. 1976) (federal courts casebook first published by McCormick and Chadbourn in 1946); 6 California Law Revision Commission Reports 39-45, 58-74, 133-69, 307-09, 328-416, 439-80, 509-25, 627-79, 727-71, 831-60, 925-50, 1049-107 (1964).
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Who was James H. Chadbourn?
American legal scholar (1905–1982)
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James H. Chadbourn was born in 1905.
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James H. Chadbourn died in 1982.
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James H. Chadbourn was a lawyer and jurist.
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James H. Chadbourn was American.
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