biography
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Wright, (Philip) Quincy
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1970)
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| biography:
| Legal scholar, born in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Lombard College (1912) and the University of Illinois (1915 PhD), and taught at Harvard (1916–19), the University of Minnesota (1919–23), and the University of Chicago (1923–56). He was an adviser to the US State Department (1943–5) and to the Nuremberg Tribunal (1945). Among his books are The Enforcement of International Law through Municipal Law in the US (1916), The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace (1935), and The Role of International Law in the Prevention of War (1961). |
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