Theodore Salisbury Woolsey
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Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (October 22, 1852 ā April 24, 1929) was an American legal scholar who was professor of international law at Yale University.
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He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was Theodore Dwight Woolsey, President of Yale University.[1] He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School (1876). In 1872 he was an initiate into The Skull and Bones Society.[2]
After traveling in Europe, he was instructor in public law at Yale. From 1878 to 1911, he was professor of international law at Yale.[1] He was one of the founders of the Yale Review and a frequent contributor to it. He wrote several essays which were collected under the title America's Foreign policy (1898), and he edited Woolsey's International Law and Pomeroy's International Law.
He was a member of the General Society of Colonial Wars.