George Grafton Wilson

George Grafton Wilson (

On overseas assignments, he was an American delegate plenipotentiary to the London Naval Conference in 1908-09; counselor at the American Legation at The Hague during the early period of World War I from 1914. He served as an exchange professor to France in 1912-13. At the Hague in August 1914 Wilson aided U.S. Minister Henry Van Dyke to alleviate the distress of American travelers stranded in Europe by the war. He served as Legal adviser for the U.S. mission for return of Dutch ships in 1919 and was a member of the legal staff at the Washington Naval Conference in 1921-22. In 1923, he was lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law. He was the American member of the International Commission for the United States and The Netherlands in 1928. In 1928, he was designated by Nicaragua as member of the International Central American Tribunal.

He served as a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1907, becoming Law editor-in-chief, 1924–43 and then honorary editor-in-chief from 1943. He was also director of the Revue de Droit International from 1913 and Membre de l’Institut de Droit International; member of the American Philosophical Society;^[3] fellow and later vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and vice president of the American Society of International Law.

Published works

• Town and City Government in Providence, (1899)
• Insurgency, (1900)
• Submarine Telegraph Cables in Their International Relations, (1901)
• International Law Situations, U.S. Naval War College, editor for 36 annual volumes, (1902–37)
• International Law (with George Fox Tucker), (1901, ten additions to 1937)
• L’Insurrection, (1902)
• International Law, Hornbook series, (1910, 3d edit., 1939)
• The Hague Arbitration Cases, (1915)
• The First Year of the League of Nations, (1921)
• Wheaton’s International Law, Editor of centenary edition; Carnegie classics, (1936)

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