Julius Stone

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Julius Stone

Hastings College of Law, University of California
.

He is the author of 27 books on jurisprudence and international law, and is hailed by his official biography at the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence as one of the premier legal theorists.[1]

Early life

Stone was born in

Lithuanian Jewish refugees.[1]

Education

Stone received a scholarship to

Leeds University, and then a Doctor of Juridical Science from Harvard University
.

Career

Stone taught at Harvard, and briefly at Leeds, then went to

anti-Semitism
influenced his lifelong commitment to justice, according to his biographer, Leonie Star (Star 1993).

Stone has been described by his official JSIJ biography as having "a life-long commitment to Israel"[1] and in the Sydney Law Review as having an emotional and "fierce loyalty to the State of Israel" that led some of his colleagues to "express fear even to discuss Israel with him".[2]

In 1972, Stone moved to the

Hastings College of Law, University of California
.

In 1999, 15 years after Stone's death, the University of Sydney established an institute of jurisprudence which was named after him, the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence.[3]

Influence

Stone influenced generations of lawyers who studied at University of Sydney. For most of his time there, the Law School was a practice-based school and students learnt what they needed to become practising lawyers. According to A J Brown of Griffith University, the former Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby was heavily influenced at university by Stone. [1]

Israeli settlements

Stone's view was that

Israeli settlements in the West Bank are legal under international law, and do not constitute a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention
(Article 49(6)). He stated:

"Irony would...be pushed to the absurdity of claiming that Article 49(6), designed to prevent repetition of Nazi-type genocidal policies of rendering Nazi metropolitan territories

judenrein, has now come to mean that...the West Bank...must be made judenrein and must be so maintained, if necessary by the use of force by the government of Israel against its own inhabitants. Common sense as well as correct historical and functional context excludes so tyrannical a reading of Article 49(6.)"[4]

Criticism

Stone has been criticised for his views in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by Ben Saul, saying: "Many of Stone’s positions on critical international legal issues in the Israel/Palestine conflict stepped outside even generous zones of plausible or reasonable interpretations of the law, even on the law as it then often ambiguously stood, and certainly in hindsight."[5]

Honours

Publications

Books

  • 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 Procedure in Upper Silesia (1933)
  • The Atlantic Charter: New Worlds for Old (1943)
  • "Stand Up and Be Counted!" An Open Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Isaac Isaacs PC, GCMGM, on the Occasional of the Twenty-Sixth Anniversary of the Jewish National Home (1944)
  • Recent Trends in English Precedent, with a Comparative Introduction on the Civil Law (1945)
  • The Province and Function of Law: Law as Logic, Justice and Social Control, A Study in Jurisprudence (1947; second edition, 1961)
  • Law and Society (1948–49)
  • Legal Controls of International Conflict: A Treatise on the Dynamics of Disputes- and War-Law (1954)
  • Aggression and World Order: A Critique of United Nations Theories of Aggression (1958)
  • Legal Education and Public Responsibility (1959)
  • The Eichmann Trial and the Rule of Law (1961)
  • Quest for Survival: The Role of Law and Foreign Policy (1961)
  • The International Court and World Crisis (1962)
  • The Legal System and Lawyers' Reasonings (1964)
  • Human Law and Human Justice (1965)
  • Soviet Jewry (1965)
  • Social Dimensions of Law and Justice (1966)
  • Law and the Social Sciences in the Second Half Century (1966)
  • Research for Advancement of Peace: A Check-List of Programme Choices (1968)
  • Toward a Feasible International Criminal Court (1970)
  • Approaches to the Notion of International Justice (1970)
  • Self-Determination and the Palestinian Arabs (1970)
  • Of Law and Nations: Between Power Politics and Human Hopes (1974)
  • Conflict through Consensus: United Nations Approaches to Aggression (1977)
  • Israel and Palestine: An Assault on the Law of Nations (1981)
  • Visions of World Order: Between State Power and Human Justice (1984)
  • Precedent and Law: The Dynamics of Common Law Growth (1985)

Pamphlets

  • International Law and The Arab-Israel Conflict (n.d.) [but after 1980],
    ISBN 0-646-04964-X

References

  1. ^ a b c d Biography of Julius Stone Archived 23 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. URL accessed 5 May 2006.
  2. ^ Kirby, Michael (2005). "Julius Stone and the Struggle for the Soul of Law" (PDF). Sydney Law Review. 27 (2). University of Sydney: 323, 332. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  3. ^ The Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence Archived 14 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 21 January 2011
  4. ^ "The Settlements Issue: Distorting the Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords". Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
  5. SSRN 1485056
    .
  6. JSTOR 41367536
    .
  7. ^ "Prof Julius Stone". It's An Honour. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Professor Julius Stone, OBE". It's An Honour. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

Further reading

  • Star, Leonie. Julius Stone: an intellectual life. Oxford University Press, 1993,
    ISBN 0-424-00174-8

External links
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