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George Grafton Wilson
1863–1951
A longtime teacher of international law, he helped shape how generations of students and readers understood war, neutrality, and relations between states. His career linked Brown, Harvard, the Fletcher School, and the U.S. Naval War College.
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International Law
by George Grafton Wilson, George Fox Tucker
About the author
Born in Plainfield, Connecticut, 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 graduated from Brown University and later served on the faculties of Brown University, Harvard University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the U.S. Naval War College.
Wilson wrote and edited extensively on international law and foreign relations, helping bring difficult legal questions to a wider audience of students, scholars, and public officials. Accounts of his career describe him as an influential classroom teacher as well as a steady presence in the professional world of international law.
He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1951. Remembered for a long academic life devoted to public law and international affairs, he stands as part of the generation that helped establish international law as a serious field of study in the United States.