George Grafton Wilson

George Grafton Wilson ( born March 29, 1863 in Plainfield (Connecticut), † April 30, 1951 in Cambridge ( Massachusetts)) was an American jurist. He worked from 1910 as a professor of international law at Harvard University and from 1933 to 1937 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Life

Wilson studied at Brown University, where in 1886 he earned his Bachelor of Arts, 1888 his Master of Arts, and in 1891 received his doctorate. In 1890 and 1891 he studied in Europe at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Paris and Oxford.

1887 Wilson took over the office of school director in Groton (Connecticut) and was from 1889 to 1890 director of the High School in Rutland (Vermont ). In 1891 he was appointed Associate Professor and in 1894 Professor of Social and Political Science at Brown University. In 1910 he was appointed Professor of International Law at Harvard University, where he held since 1908 lectures, from 1933 to 1937 he was Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

From 1900 to 1937 Wilson held under international law lectures for naval officers at the Naval War College in Newport (Rhode Iceland ). He has published an annual volume of International Law Topics or International Law Situations, which should give the naval officers assistance in coping with international legal issues that they may face as part of their service. This 7,000 -page work, which published Wilson at Naval War College, is considered his most important contribution to international law.

At the London Conference (1908-1909), he participated as a delegate and had together with Louis Renault a huge impact on the London Seerechtsdeklaration. He was also a consultant to the American delegation at the Washington Naval Conference of 1922. Wilson was one of the founding fathers of the American Society of International Law ( ASIL ), as its vice- president, he was in 1923. As in 1907, the American Journal of International Law appeared for the first time, Wilson was one of the editors. From 1924 to 1943 he held the post of chief editor, then he was made an honorary chief editor.

In addition, Wilson was a Fellow and 1939/1940 Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1910 a member of the Institut de Droit International. For his services he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Brown University, the University of Vermont (1911 ) and awarded the University of Hawaii (1937 ). The ASIL 1924 appointed him an honorary vice-president.

Publications (selection )

• International law. With Fox Tucker. In 1901.
• Insurgency and international maritime law. In: American Journal of International Law. 1907th American Society of International Law, pp. 46-60, ISSN 0002-9300.
• Handbook of International Law. , 1910.
• The Hague arbitration cases: compromis and awards with maps in cases DECIDED under the Hague Conventions of commission of the of 1889 and 1907 for the pacific settlement of international disputes and texts of the Conventions. Ginn, Boston [u a ] 1915.
• The first year of the League of Nations; with the covenant of the League of Nations in an appendix. Little, Brown, Boston, 1921.