Julius Stone

Julius Stone ( * July 7, 1907 in Leeds, United Kingdom, † September 3, 1985 in Sydney, Australia ) was a legal theorists and internationalist.

Life and work

Julius Stone was born in Leeds, UK, the son of poor Jewish refugees from Lithuania. With a scholarship, he studied at Oxford University, where he made several statements. Subsequently, he earned more degrees at the University of Leeds and Harvard.

His appointment to the University of Sydney was highly controversial; the impression of hostility toward Jews should live long affect its binding to the jurisprudence, as his biographer Leonie Star writes.

He taught at Harvard University and moved to Leeds then to New Zealand where he worked at the Auckland University College. Stone was 1942-1972 a Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney, then a visiting professor of law at the University of New South Wales as well as Distinguished Professor at Hastings College of Law of the University of California. He is the author of 27 books on jurisprudence, international law and international order of peace and was regarded internationally as one of the leading legal theorists.

Stone was instrumental in the reform of legal education in Australia, where he had a major influence on a generation of students and trainees. He also had a great influence on the international world, especially, for example, when he called for a " Red Phone " between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Stone have been bestowed numerous honors, including lifelong professor at Hastings College of Law in California and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Works (selection)

  • International Guarantees of Minority Rights: Procedure of the Council of the League of Nations in Theory and Practice (1932 )
  • Regional Guarantees of Minority Rights: A Study of Minorities in Upper Silesia Procedure, 1933
  • The Province and function of law, 1946
  • Legal controls of international conflict, 1954
  • Aggression and world order, 1958
  • The Eichmann Trial and the Rule of Law ( 1961)
  • Soviet Jewry (1965 )
  • Human Law and Human Justice (1965 )
  • Law and the social sciences in the second half century, 1966
  • Toward a Feasible International Criminal Court (1970 )
  • Israel and Palestine: An Assault on the Law of Nations (1981 )
  • Visions of World Order: Between State Power and Human Justice (1984 )
Internationalism (politics) University of Auckland University of California, Hastings College of the Law Legal science Integrated Authority File
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