Early Career

Containers:

Box 18-26

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

Stone studied at the University of Oxford from 1925 until 1928 when he graduated Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Civil Law, and later at the University of Leeds where he obtained his Master of Laws degree.

During 1931 and 1932 Stone was Rockefeller Fellow in Social Science at the Harvard Law School where in 1932 he was awarded a Doctorate of Juristic Science; Oxford awarded him a Doctorate of Civil Law in 1934 for his published work. From 1933 until 1936 Stone was Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard, and Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He had a part in the launching of the School, initiated jointly by the Tufts College and Harvard in 1933. Stone returned to Leeds as lecturer in Law in 1936, and from 1938 until 1940 was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

The first part of the series consists of files of correspondence and papers documenting Stone's career before his arrival in Sydney in 1942. They include testimonials written by Professors G.C. Cheshire and J.L. Brierley of Oxford and Roscoe Pound of Harvard; and a letter written in 1936 by Professor H.A. Holland of Cambridge in which he explained why he shared views of colleagues that there should not be more than a quota of Jews on University faculties throughout the British Commonwealth. A scrap book contains journalistic work by Stone when he was a part-time leader writer for the Yorkshire Post from 1936 until 1938.

The second subseries consists of lecture notes written by Stone whilst he was a student at Oxford, Leeds and Harvard and the lectures on consular and diplomatic law from the Fletcher School.

Names:

Stone, Julius

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