Julius Stone Centenary Conference
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Thursday 5 July – Saturday 7 July 2007
PROGRAM
Thursday, 5 July
11.15
Registration. Lunch & refreshments
ASSEMBLY HALL (Level 4)
Chair: Helen Irving
12.45
Conference opening
The Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
1.00
Address
The Hon. Murray Gleeson, Chief Justice of Australia
1.30
Reflection
Adrienne Stone, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Reflection on Julius Stone’s Life
2.00
Keynote Address
Upendra Baxi, Professor of Law in Development, School of Law,
University of Warwick
Revisiting Social Dimensions of Law and Justice in a Posthuman Era.
3.00
Break
3.15
Plenary session: Revisiting Sociological Jurisprudence
MINTER ELLISON CONFERENCE ROOM (Level 13)
Chair: Fleur Johns
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Stanley L. Paulson, Washington University in St Louis; Faculty of
Law, University of Kiel
Sociological Jurisprudence versus the Pure Theory of Law: Julius Stone and
Hans Kelsen
Allan Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University,
Toronto
The Province of Jurisprudence Democratised
4.45
Break
5.30-7.00
2007 Julius Stone Address
BANCO COURT, SUPREME COURT OF NSW
Brian Tamanaha, Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law
at St John's University, New York; winner of the 2006 Dennis Leslie
Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory
Understanding Contemporary Legal Pluralism
Friday, 6 July
9.00
Plenary session: Equality, Freedom and Bias
MINTER ELLISON CONFERENCE ROOM (Level 13)
Chair: Isobel Karpin
Wojciech Sadurski, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Two Concepts of Equality
Reg Graycar, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Gender, Race, Bias and Perspective OR How Otherness Colours Your
Judgment
Margaret Thornton, ANU College of Law, Australian National
University
Free Trade and Justice: Can they Co-exist?
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11.00
Morning tea
11.30
Parallel sessions
Session One: Rights and Justice
MINTER ELLISON CONFERENCE ROOM (Level 13)
Chair: Kristin Savell
Maurice Adams, University of Antwerp
Towards a Jurisprudence of Fundamental Rights Adjudication: Three
Systems Compared
Shirley Scott, School of Social Sciences and International Studies,
University of New South Wales
International Justice and International Law
Wendy Lambourne, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University
of Sydney
Transitional Justice After Mass Violence: Reconciling Retributive and
Restorative Justice
Session Two: The Legal System & Lawyers’ Reasonings
ROOM GPR 6 (Level 6)
Chair: Helen Irving
Nicholas Aroney, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
Articulating the Reasons for Decision in Political Communication Cases
Murray Raff, School of Law, University of Canberra
Natural Law, the Freedom of Property and the Environment
Anat Scolnicov, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University
The Two Faces of Religious Freedom and Religious Free Speech
1.30
Lunch
2.30
Parallel sessions
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Session One: Protection, Punishment and Justice
MINTER ELLISON CONFERENCE ROOM (Level 13)
Chair: Kevin Walton
Steven Wheatley, Law School and Centre for International
Governance, Leeds University
Legal Protection of Minorities
Helen M. Stacy, Stanford Law School and Freeman Spogli Institute
for International Studies
Human Rights at Gunpoint
Kirsten Sellars, University of Aberdeen School of Law
The Short History of Crimes against Peace
Session Two: Precedent and Law: The Dynamics of Common Law Growth
ROOM GPR 6 (Level 6)
Chair: Alex Ziegert
Michael Robertson, Faculty of Law, University of Otago
Telling Law’s Two Stories
Chaim Saiman, Villanova University School of Law
Precedent, Tradition and History in Common Law Systems
David Hamer, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
Original, Spurious and Other Versions of the Rule Excluding Similar Fact
Evidence
5.00
Drinks
Saturday, 7 July
9.00
Parallel sessions
Session One: International Law and Conflict
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MINTER ELLISON CONFERENCE ROOM (Level 13)
Chair: Kevin Walton
Ben Saul, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Apologist, Formalist or Jurist Par Excellence: Julius Stone and the Question
of Palestine in International Law
Andrew Dahdal, Division of Law, Macquarie University
The Applicability of International Law to the Middle East: Understanding
the Views of Julius Stone
Session Two: International Law Jurisprudence
ROOM GPR 6 (Level 6)
Chair: Bernard Dunne
Alex Ziegert, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
The Rule of Law as the Key for Effective Governance: The Dilemma of
Postcommunist and Postcolonial Societies
David Goldman, Deacons; Honorary Affiliate, Julius Stone Institute
of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney
World Society before Globalisation
James Green, School of Law, University of Reading
The Clarification of Self-Defence: Proposals Old and New
11.00
Morning tea
11.30
Parallel sessions
Session One: International Courts
MINTER ELLISON CONFERENCE ROOM (Level 13)
Chair: Ben Saul
Nicholas Kaufman, Office of District Attorney of Jerusalem
The Role of International Criminal Tribunals in Prosecution of the Violations
of the Laws of War
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Christopher Connolly, Clifford Chance LLP
The European Court of Human Rights and Accountability for State Violence
in Northern Ireland
Session Two: National Courts: Cases and Controversies
ROOM GPR 6 (Level 6)
Chair: Luke Nottage
Tony Earls, Colin, Biggers & Paisley, Sydney
Irish Republican Courts 1919 to 1922: Political Tool or Legal System?
Timothy Webster, Law Clerk Designate, District of Massachusetts
No Foreigners Allowed: Racial Discrimination Lawsuits in Japan
1.00
Lunch
2.00
Plenary Session: Stone’s Work and Legacy
MINTER ELLISON CONFERENCE ROOM (Level 13)
Chair: Reg Graycar
Kristen Rundle, University of Toronto
A Duty to Learn? Julius Stone and the Eichmann Trial
Fleur Johns, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
The Gift of Realism: Julius Stone and the International Law Academy in
Australia, 1954-1994
Jonathan Stone, Australian National University
The Roles of Universities: Views of a Scholar of the Last Century
4.00
Break
4.15
Panel/discussion: The Future of Sociological Jurisprudence
Chair: Helen Irving
Brian Tamanaha, St John’s University, Alex Ziegert, University of
Sydney, Margaret Thornton, ANU.
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Song
Tony Blackshield, Macquarie University
The Julius Stone Waltz
5.15
Conference close
7.00 for 7.30
Conference Dinner
Brisbane Room, Wentworth Sofitel, 61-101 Phillip St, Sydney
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