Theodore Salisbury Woolsey

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Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (October 22, 1852 – April 24, 1929) was an American legal scholar, born at New Haven, Conn., son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School (1876). After traveling in Europe he was instructor in public law at Yale, and for 33 years (1878-1911) professor of international law. 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.

Woolsey married Bostonian Annie Gardner Salisbury in 1877 and they had two sons. (One of these sons, Theodore Jr., was a foresty expert who shot himself dead with a pistol in 1933, worried over illness.) He retired in 1911 and died of pneumonia.