Julius Stone Address
The Julius Stone Address, inaugurated in 2000, is an annual lecture given by a leading international scholar of jurisprudence. The Address is delivered in the Banco Court of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and is attended by judges, scholars, leading members of the legal profession and the broader community.
The annual address is published in the Sydney Law Review. The text of some past addresses is also available online. Links are provided below.
The address is kindly sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation.
2008 Julius Stone Address
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Professor Samantha Besson
Professor of Public International Law and European Law, University of Fribourg
The Authority of International Law
A burgeoning legitimacy crisis has led to increasing academic interest in the authority of international law. But work on this subject faces two related difficulties: the complex reality of such law and the very notion of legal authority. By adopting a richer model of international law and rethinking the legitimacy of the ways in which it is made, Professor Besson develops a procedural account of legal authority that can make sense of contemporary international law in the context of competing claims to legitimacy by national and regional orders.
Samantha Besson is Professor of public international law and European law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She holds a Degree in Swiss and European Law (University of Vienna and Fribourg), a Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law (University of Oxford), a PhD in Law (University of Fribourg) and a Habilitation in Law (University of Bern). Her publications and research interests lie in legal and democratic theory, in particular as applied to international and European law-making. Besides numerous publications in French, she is the author of the monograph The Morality of Conflict (Hart Publishing: Oxford, 2005), co-edited the collection of essays Deliberative Democracy and its Discontents (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2006) with José Luis Mart' and is currently co-editing the forthcoming collections of essays The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009) with John Tasioulas and Legal Republicanism: National and International (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009) with José Luis Mart'.
2008 Address Information
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 5.30pm sharp
Banco Court, Level 13, Law Courts Building,
Queen's Square, Sydney
For further information, please contact the Julius Stone Institute.
Julius Stone Address Archive
2000 Professor William Twining, University College, London, UK
'The Province of Jurisprudence Re-examined: Problems of Generalisation in a Global Context'
2001 Professor Upendra Baxi, Warwick University, UK
'Human Rights as Human Flourishings: From Julius Stone to Amartya Sen and Beyond'
2002 Professor Patricia Williams, Columbia University, USA
'Inlaws and Outlaws: The Fate of Equality in Unsettled Times'
2003 Professor Jack Balkin, Yale Law School, USA
'How Rights Change: Freedom of Speech in a Digital Age'
2004 Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School, USA
'Challenging Expert Rule: The Politics of Global Governance'
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2005 Professor Ratna Kapur, Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, India
'The Dark Side of Human Rights'
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2006 Professor Jeremy Waldron, New York University
'Conquest & Circumstances: Can changing conditions legitimise the imposition of colonial authority?'
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2007 Professor Brian Tamanaha, St Johns University, New York
'Understanding Contemporary Legal Pluralism'
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