LAW PROFESSOR

Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 7

LAW PROFESSOR

APPOINTMENT TO AUCKLAND COLLEGE A DISTINGUISHED CAREER [Per Dvited Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 29. The possessor of a distinguished academic and teaching career, Dr Julius Stone, lecturer in law at the University of Leeds, has been selected by the Council of the Auckland University College as professor of law. The chair has been vacant since the retirement of Professor Algie in December of last year. Fourteen applications for the chair of law were received, 13 coming from Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, and one from Budapest. Aged 32, Dr Stone holds the degress of B.A. (Oxon.) in the honours school of jurisprudence, first class B.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.M. (University of Leeds), S.J.D. (Harvard University), and D.C.L. (Oxon.). Dr Stone was engaged in practice in Leeds from 1928 to 1931, and in 1930 and 1931 he was assistant lecturer in law at the University of Hull. For the following two years Dr Stone was instructor in jurisprudence at the Harvard Law School, the ‘United' States, and over the same period acted as professor of international law and organisation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Returning to England in 1936, he took up his present position of lecturer in law at the University of Leeds. Dr Stone is the author of many widely-known legal publications, the subjects on which he has written including public and international law, jurisprudence, conflict of laws, and evidence. Accompanying his application for the professorship at Auckland were testimonials from prominent English and American law professors.