Book contents
- The Law of Strangers
- The Law of Strangers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht
- Part 2 Hans Kelsen
- Part 3 Louis Henkin
- Part 4 Egon Schwelb
- Part 5 René Cassin
- Part 6 Shabtai Rosenne
- Part 7 Julius Stone
- 13 Enabling and Constraining
- 14 An Axionormative Dissenter
- Index
14 - An Axionormative Dissenter
Reflections on Julius Stone
from Part 7 - Julius Stone
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2019
- The Law of Strangers
- The Law of Strangers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Hersch Zvi Lauterpacht
- Part 2 Hans Kelsen
- Part 3 Louis Henkin
- Part 4 Egon Schwelb
- Part 5 René Cassin
- Part 6 Shabtai Rosenne
- Part 7 Julius Stone
- 13 Enabling and Constraining
- 14 An Axionormative Dissenter
- Index
Summary
The opportunity to comment on Jacqueline Mowbray’s discussion of Julius Stone is doubly welcome. Not only does it afford me the opportunity to engage in a set of scholarly issues that have long interested me at the intersection of law and history, but it has also exposed me to a fascinating figure, Stone, about whom I knew precious little. Stone’s life story is, on my very basic reading, one of intriguing tensions: exclusion and high attainment, a sweeping catholicity of mind and a certain rigidity of disposition, and a keen concern for the fate of minorities alongside a surprising tone-deafness to the plight of one in particular. Mowbray skillfully teases out another defining tension: Stone’s commitment to the ideal of objectivity, borne of the outsider’s perspective, and his recognition, resulting from his commitment to cross-cultural analysis, of the inescapability of a measure of relativism in scholarly inquiry.
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- The Law of StrangersJewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century, pp. 284 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019