Julius Stone

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Julius Stone (born July 7, 1907 in Leeds , Great Britain, † September 3, 1985 in Sydney , Australia) was a legal theorist and internationalist .

life and work

Julius Stone was born in Leeds , Great Britain, to poor Jewish refugees from Lithuania . He studied on a scholarship at Oxford University, where he graduated from several degrees. He then earned further degrees from Leeds University and Harvard.

His appointment to the University of Sydney was hotly contested; the impression of hostility towards Jews should influence his bond with jurisprudence for life, as his biographer Leonie Star writes.

He taught at Harvard University and then moved to New Zealand in Leeds , where he worked at Auckland University College . Stone was a Challis Professor of Law and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972 , then Visiting Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and Distinguished Professor at the University of California's Hastings College of Law . He is the author of 27 books on law , international law and the international peace system and is internationally recognized as one of the leading legal theorists. Stone is also author of the article for Legal Philosophy ( Philosophy of law ) in the Encyclopaedia Britannica .

Stone was instrumental in reforming legal education in Australia and had a major impact on a generation of students and interns there. He also had a great influence on the international world, especially z. B. when he called for a "red phone" between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War . Stone has received numerous honors, including lifetime professorships at Hastings College of Law in California and 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 Procedure in Upper Silesia, 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)

literature

  • Leonie Star: Julius Stone. An intellectual life . Sydney University Press, Sydney 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "His appointment was wrapped in controversy driven by the perceived radicalism of his jurisprudential stance, the desire of some to keep the Chair open for candidates in the armed forces, and, it has often been suspected, Stone's identity as a Jew." - CV of Julius Stone at the University of Sydney (English)
  2. ↑ Julius Stone . Author profile. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British legal theorist and internationalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1985
Place of death Sydney