PROFESSOR OF LAW
AUCKLAND COLLEGE APPOINTMENT.
AUCKLAND, November 28.
Dr. Julius Stone, lecturer in law Ht the University of Leeds, has Been selected by the Council of Auckland University College as professor of law. The chair has been vacant since the'retirement of Professor R. M. Algie in December last year. Fourteen applications for the cnalr of law were received, 13 coming I from Britain, - Australia, and Now Zealand, and one -from Budapest. Aged 32, Dr. Stone holds the degrees of B.A. (Oxon) in the Honours School Of Jurisprudence (first class;; B.C.L. (Oxon); LL.M. (University of Leeds); Doctor of Juristic Science (Harvard University), and D.C.L. (Oxon). He was engaged in practice in Leeds from 1938 to 1931, ann in 1930 and 1931 he was. assistantlecturer in law at the University of Hull. For the following two years Dr. Stone' was Instructor in Junprudence at the Harvard Law School, 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 uf many widely-known legal publications, subjects on which he has written ineluding public international law, jurisprudence, conflict of laws, and .evidence. Accompanying tys application for the professorship at,. Auckland were testimonials from prominent English and American law professors.
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Grey River Argus, 1 December 1938, Page 9
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