Wright, (Philip) Quincy (1890–1970)

US legal scholar. Born in Medford, Massachusetts, he was educated at Lombard College and the University of Illinois, gaining his PhD in 1915. He then taught at Harvard (1916–19), the University of Minnesota (1919–23), and from 1923 to 1956 he taught at the University of Chicago. He was an adviser to the US State Department (1943–45) and to the Nuremberg Tribunal (1945). Among other books, he wrote 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).