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George Grafton Wilson
1863–1951
A leading American scholar of international law, he spent decades teaching at Brown and Harvard and helped shape how generations of students understood the law of nations. He also wrote widely on neutrality, maritime issues, and world affairs at a time when those questions were becoming urgent on the global stage.
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International Law
by George Fox Tucker, George Grafton Wilson
About the author
Born in 1863, George Grafton Wilson became one of the best-known American teachers of international law in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied at Brown University, later joined its faculty, and went on to teach at Harvard, where his work reached a wide circle of students and scholars.
Wilson wrote and edited books on international law, neutrality, and related questions of diplomacy and war. His career also connected scholarship with public service: he was associated with the American Society of International Law and was remembered by colleagues as an important guide to the field during a period shaped by major international conflicts and legal change.
He died in 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today he is chiefly remembered for his long teaching career and for helping establish international law as a serious academic subject in the United States.