Julius Stone and the Adventure of the Idea of Justice

In developing the theory of an emergent international enclave of justice, Stone seeks to suggest alternative arguments regarding assistance to the developing communities of mankind which could interrelate the mutual compassion of peoples and long-term political and economic prudence. His thesis gives concreteness to notions of what is feasible, rather than what is ideal, in international economic justice

A Tribute to Julius Stone on his Retirement from the Challis Chair

Honoring Julius Stone on his retirement from Sydney University Law School

Customary International Law and Deep Seabed Mining

Presentation and Panel Discussion from the symposium entitled, Mining the Deep Seabed: A Range of Perspectives. This paper stresses current issues and questions involving the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and to look at their effects

Rich and Poor Countries and the Limits of Ideology -- An Introduction to the Day\u27s Proceedings

This is the eighth annual Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law here at Syracuse. Our topic for this meeting is The United Nations and the Resources of the Deep-Ocean Floor. The problems which this theme signals are becoming cute as the world\u27s population increasingly presses on our diminishing resources and as our environment is threatened with major and possibly irreversible degradation

Combating International Terrorism: The United Nations Developments

Although reflected in one word, terrorism has become refracted, in the numerous U.N. bodies dealing with it, into a multicolored concept-and all its qualities tend to be given different emphases. Also, although that one word has been with us since the last decade of the 18th century, its connotations have changed as states mature and yesterday\u27s partisans become today\u27s establishment

Some Dilemmas of an Internationalist in a World of State Egoism

The validity of any statement about international law turns on the meaning one is prepared to give the term. To say that the obligation to pay prompt, adequate and effective compensation for the expropriation of alien property derives from the body of traditional customary international law pertaining to the responsibility of states, or that the obligation derives from domestic (constitutional), and not international law at all, is to speak without clear referent. Clarity of both intent and ideology are absolute necessities