In addition to his academic work, Wright was an adviser to Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials, and often provided advice to the U.S. State Department.

[8] In 1956 he became Professor of International Law in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Soon after his arrival at Chicago, Wright organized an ongoing interdisciplinary study of wars, which eventually resulted in over 40 dissertations and 10 books.

No one man worked with more sustained care, compassion, and level-headedness on the study of war, its causes, and its possible prevention than Quincy Wright.

Several of his books became standard texts, including Mandates Under the League of Nations (1930) and The Study of International Relations (1955).

"[13] In a review of the book, Harold Lasswell wrote that Wright sought to provide a common frame for the study of world politics and to halt an emerging trend towards increased specialization.

[14] While conducting research for Mandates Under the League of Nations (1930), which was funded by a Guggenheim Foundation grant,[15] Wright visited Damascus less than two weeks after it had been shelled during the Great Syrian Revolt.