University of Sydney

Containers:

Box 27-43

Component identifier:

Series 5

Content Summary:

This large collection documents Julius Stone's appointment as Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 until 1972. The series has been divided into four subseries: Policy and administrative files, students' records, lectures and Sydney Law Review.

Policy and administrative files contain correspondence, memoranda and press cuttings relating to legal education; academic appointments; relations of the University and its Law School with political parties in New South Wales including the crisis surrounding Stone's appointment in 1942, the subsequent resignation of the University's Chancellor, Sir Percival Halse Rogers and other members of its Senate, and the role of students and professional staff in the crisis; attempts by members of the legal profession to control the Faculty, through numerical predominance of part-time lecturers; the resistance to Stone's attempts to plan for the large numbers of returning servicemen after the War; the place of political science in the Faculty of Law; and the public controversies surrounding the procedure of the University in selecting Stone's successor in 1972. There are also copies of student manifestos and demands, notices and minutes of student meetings. The second subseries contains students' records and assessments from 1942 until 1972; a file termed "rogues gallery"; and copies of testimonials given by Stone to his students. Lecture notes used by Stone in the subjects of Jurisprudence and International Law form the third subseries.

Stone was principally responsible for the founding of the Sydney Law Review in 1953. He was its general editor and mentor for the first seven years of its publication. The papers contain correspondence with contributors during that time, together with notes and articles. Details of Review dinners are also included.

Names:

Stone, Julius

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