EVENTS ARCHIVE
Since its establishment in 1999, the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence has hosted numerous international conferences and had a regular, active programme of seminars, workshops and lectures.
For details of the current jurisprudence events at the Sydney Law School, please click here.
Conferences Archive
Judicial Values:Should Judges Just Apply the Law, or Should They Bring their own Values to the Task? - 27 August 2009
The Sydney Writers' Festival in conjunction with the Julius Stone Institute, the Sydney Law School, and Monash University present a forum on judicial values hosted by Damien Carrick, from Radio National's The Law Report On Judicial Values. It asks: Should judges just apply the law - or should they bring their own values to the task?
Speakers
Bernhard Schlink, former Judge, Professor of Law, and author of The Reader
Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
Professor Reg Graycar, Sydney Law School
Professor Justin Malbon, Monash University
Free Will: Moral & Legal Responsibility - 15 November 2008
The question of whether people have free will is of interest to legal philosophers and criminal lawyers due to its possible link with moral responsibility and deserved punishment. If free will is required to be morally responsible and to deserve punishment by a criminal court then a further question is - what kind of freedom of the will is necessary?
Speakers
Christopher Birch, Sydney Law School
Justifying Punishment in a Deterministic World
Allan McCay, Sydney Law School
The Incompatibility of Retributive Desert and Determinism
Philip A. Quadrio, University of New South Wales
Reason, Freedom and Punishment: A (Broadly) Hegelian Account
Neil Levy, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Extending Smilansky on Prepunishment
David Hodgson, Supreme Court of NSW
The Role of Gestalts in Conscious Decision-Making
Catriona McKenzie, Macquarie University
Autonomy, Moral Responsibility and Self-Control
Daniel Cohen, Charles Sturt University
Rational Capacities, Resolve, and Weakness of Will
Julius Stone Centenary Conference - 5-7 July 2007
A conference to mark the centenary of the birth of Julius Stone.
Julius Stone (1907-1985) was Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972 and is recognised internationally as one of the leading legal theorists of the twentieth century. He is the author of numerous works, including The Province and Function of Law (1947) and Legal Controls of International Conflict (1954).
The conference will feature papers on Julius Stone's legacy as well as current work in his major areas of interest: jurisprudence and international law.
Plenary speakers
Tony Blackshield, Macquarie University, will sing The Julius Stone Waltz
Reg Graycar, Sydney Law School
Gender, Race, Bias and Perspective OR How Otherness Colours Your Judgment
Allan Hutchinson, York University, Toronto, Canada
The Province of Jurisprudence Democratised
Fleur Johns, Sydney Law School
The Gift of Realism: Julius Stone and the International Law Academy in Australia, 1954-1994
Stanley L. Paulson, University of Kiel, Germany
Sociological Jurisprudence versus the Pure Theory of Law: Julius Stone and Hans Kelsen
Kristen Rundle, University of Toronto, Canada
A Duty to Learn? Julius Stone and the Eichmann Trial
Wojciech Sadurski, Sydney Law School
Two Concepts of Equality
Adrienne Stone, University of Melbourne, Australia
Julius Stone's Life
Jonathan Stone, Australian National University
The Roles of Universities: Views of a Scholar of the Last Century
Margaret Thornton, Australian National University
Free Trade and Justice: Can They Coexist?
Parallel sessions
Maurice Adams, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Towards an Institutional Jurisprudence of Fundamental Rights Adjudication: Three Systems Compared
Nicholas Aroney, University of Queensland
Articulating the Reasons for Decision in Political Communication Cases
Christopher Connolly, Clifford Chance LLP
The European Court of Human Rights and Accountability for State Violence in Northern Ireland
Andrew Dahdal, Macquarie University
The Applicability of International Law to the Middle East: Understanding the Views of Julius Stone
Tony Earls, Colin, Biggers & Paisley, Sydney
Irish Republican Courts, 1919-1922: Political Tool or Legal System?
David Goldman, Deacons & University of Sydney
World Society before Globalisation
James Green, University of Reading, UK
The Clarification of Self-Defence: Proposals Old and New
Aeyal Gross, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Proper Courts? Rethinking Transnational Legal Process and the ICJ's Role in Enforcing International Humanitarian Law
David Hamer, University of Queensland
Original, Spurious and Other Versions of the Rule Excluding Similar Fact Evidence
Nicholas Kaufman, Office of District Attorney of Jerusalem, Israel
The Role of International Criminal Tribunals in Prosecution of Violations of the Laws of War
Wendy Lambourne, University of Sydney
Transitional Justice after Mass Violence: Reconciling Retributive and Restorative Justice
Murray Raff, University of Canberra
Natural Law, the Freedom of Property and the Environment
Michael Robertson, University of Otago, New Zealand
Telling Law's Two Stories
Chaim Saiman, Villanova School of Law, USA
Precedent and Law: A Comparative Common Law Analysis
Ben Saul, Sydney Law School
Apologist, Formalist or Jurist Par Excellence: Julius Stone and the Question of Palestine in International Law
Anat Scolnicov, University of Cambridge, UK
The Two Faces of Religious Freedom and Religious Free Speech
Shirley Scott, University of New South Wales
International Justice and International law
Kirsten Sellars, University of Aberdeen, UK
The Short History of Crimes against Peace
Helen M. Stacy, Stanford Law School, USA
Human Rights at Gunpoint
Timothy Webster, Law Clerk Designate, District of Massachusetts, US
No Foreigners Allowed: Racial Discrimination Lawsuits in Japan
Steven Wheatley, Leeds University, UK
Legal Protection of Minorities
Alex Ziegert, Sydney Law School
The Rule of Law as the Key for Effective Governance: The Dilemma of Postcommunist and Postcolonial Societies
Sex, Gender & Rights - 5 August 2005
This one-day conference was held to mark the twentieth anniversary of the death of Professor Julius Stone.
The keynote speaker at the conference was Professor Ratna Kapur, who also delivered the 2005 Julius Stone Address the night before the conference.
Speakers
Professor Ratna Kapur, International Institute for Graduate Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
The Dark Side of Human Rights
Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University
The United Nations and Gender Mainstreaming
Professor Margaret Davies, Flinders University
Beyond Unity: Feminism, Sexuality and the Idea of Law
Professor Reg Graycar, University of Sydney
Law Reform: What's in it for Women?
Dr Adrienne Stone, Australian National University
The Surprising Relevance of Sex, Gender and Rights to Australian Constitutional Law
Associate Professor Belinda Bennett, University of Sydney
Globalising the Body? Globalisation and Reproductive Rights
Dr Isabel Karpin, University of Sydney
Women versus Gametes: Regulating Reproduction in the Age of Genetic Manipulation
Dr Suzanne Jamieson, University of Sydney
Gendered Law: Women and OHS Prosecutions in NSW
Mr Surya Deva, University of Sydney
Corporate (Sexual) Advertising: The Bottom Line of 'Hot Hips'
Ms Ghena Krayem, University of Sydney
Recognition of Religious Law/Practices: An Accommodation of Diversity or an Obstacle to Women's Rights?
Ms Rachael Field, Queensland University of Technology
The Inescapable and Irretrievably Masculine Nature of Modern Legal Theory: Traumatic Implications for Women in Informal Justice Contexts
Ms Anna Cody & Ms Annie Pettitt, University of New South Wales
Our Rights, Our Voices: a methodology for engaging women in human rights discourse
Seminars & Lectures Archive
Guest Speakers Series
2009
Professor Peter Singer, Princeton University
Ethics & World Poverty
Professor Philip Pettit, Princeton University
A Republican Law of Peoples
Professor Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney
Reasonableness in Law and Politics
Professor Tom Campbell, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Resuscitating Lost Causes - Confessions of a Legal Positivist
Professor Dennis Paterson, Rutgers School of Law & European University Institute
Theoretical Disagreement in Law
Professor Tom Campbell, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School
'Rights and Wrongs' Series
(1) Rights and Recognition
(2) The Rule of Law, Legal Positivism and States of Emergency
(3) Poverty as a violation of human rights: inhumanity or injustice?
Professor Jeremy Webber, University of Victoria, Canada
Reconciliation and Injustice in Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations
2008
Professor Margaret Davies, Flinders University
The Horizontal Perspective in Legal Theory and Practice
Dr Grant Lamond, University of Oxford
Coercion
Dr Dale Smith, Monash University
(Mis)understanding Dworkin
Professor Tom Campbell, CAPPE, Charles Sturt University
Rescuing Human Rights (from Human Rights Law)
Professor Martin Krygier, University of New South Wales
Ideals in the World: An Appreciation of Philip Selznick’s
Humanist Science
Intersections Seminar Series, 2003-08
2008
Justice David Hodgson
Guilty Mind or Guilty Brain; Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience
2007
Ben Saul,
Erika de Wet, 'The International Constitutional Order'
Jacqueline Mowbray,
Bourdieu on the Force of Law
Tim Stephens,
Richard & Val Routley, 'Human Chauvinism in Environmental Ethics'
Arlie Loughnan,
Intoxication and the Criminal Law
2006
Allan McCay,
Causation & Excuses in Criminal Law
Prof. David Kinley, Sydney Law School
Socialism & Human Rights
Dr Thalia Anthony, Sydney Law School
Comparative Analysis & the Sociology of Law
Dr Chris Birch SC, Sydney Law School
Death & Property
Kate Miles,
The Philosophy of Environmentalism
Dr Kristin Savell, Sydney Law School
Abortion & Morality
2004
David Goldman, Senior Associate, Deacons, Sydney
William Twining, Brian Tamanaha and Harold Berman on Reviving a ‘General Jurisprudence’ for Our Global Era
Richard Jones, University of Edinburgh
Who Regulates Cyberspace?
Jenni Millbank, University of Sydney
What is so fundamental about Marriage?Why should(n't) gay people be a part of it?
Luke Nottage, University of Sydney
Community and Modernity: The Hermeneutics of Japanese Law
Thomas Poole, University of Nottingham
What's God Got to Do with It? Waldron on the Christian Foundations of Equality
Alpana Roy, University of Sydney
Deconstructing Law: A Postcolonial Perspective
Caroline West, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Justice as Fairness
2003
Kirsten Anker, University of Sydney
Chaos theory? Testing ideas of legal pluralism
Fleur Johns, University of Sydney
The Work of Legal Semiotics
Kevin Walton, University of Sydney
Chardonnay socialism: if you're an egalitarian, how come you're so rich?