He became editor of the American Journal of International Law in 1924. Hudson married Janet Norton Aldrich in 1930 and was the father of two sons, Manley Ottmer, Jr. and Peter.[4]
His widow gave his collected 18,000 letters, notes, and manuscripts to the library of Harvard in 1964. He left his collection of 1000 law books to the American Society of International Law, which created the Manley-O.-Hudson medal in his honor. He was nominated for the Nobel peace prize in 1933 and 1951. His successor at Harvard was Louis Bruno Sohn.
Works
The Permanent Court of International Justice and the Question of American Participation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925.
Current International Cooperation. Calcutta, India: Calcutta University Press, 1927.
Progress in International Organisation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1932.
By Pacific Means. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1935.
International Legislation (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1937, co-edited with Ruth E. Bacon)[10] and
World Court Reports: A Collection of the Judgments, Orders and Opinions of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Volume III, 1932-1935 (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1938, co-edited with Ruth E.Bacon)[11]
The Permanent Court of International Justice 1920-1942. New York: Macmillan, 1943.
^Staff report (April 14, 1960). Manley Hudson, Law Scholar, 73; Member of World Court, 1936-45, Dies. Ex-Harvard Professor Led U. N. Unit. New York Times
^Hudson, Manley O. and Ruth E. Bacon, eds., International Legislation (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1937).
^Hudson, Manley O., and Ruth E. Bacon, eds., World Court Reports: A Collection of the Judgments, Orders and Opinions of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Volume III, 1932-1935 (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1938).