Gray Dorsey was a professor of International Law at Washington University. He attended Baker University in the 1930s and then went to the University of Kansas where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1941. Dorsey then served in the Coast Guard from 1942 to 1946 before going to Yale University, where he received a law degree in 1948 and an advanced law degree in 1950. In 1951, Dorsey joined the Washington University Law School faculty, and he remained at the school until his retirement in 1988. He was the Charles Nagel Professor of Jurisprudence in International Law and in 1975 he was elected president of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Dorsey was the author or co-author of numerous books on legal philosophy, international law and constitutional law. On July 20, 1997, Gray Dorsey died at the age of 79.