Julius Stone and the Question of Palestine in International Law

摘要: This article is interrogates the international law arguments articulated between 1940s and 1980s by influential Australian jurisprudence scholar, Sir Julius Stone. In particular, it critically examines Stone’s views on key controversies which still resonate today: right of self-determination peoples in Palestine; legality foreign occupation territory; lawfulness Israeli settlements occupied applicability 1949 Geneva Conventions to territory conflict as a whole; use force against “terrorists”; legal position, rights prospects Palestinian refugees. Many positions critical issues Israel/Palestine stepped outside even generous zones plausible or reasonable interpretations law, then often ambiguously stood, certainly hindsight. His casting Jewish people only victims who mattered that dispute fatally undermines for just equitable application, creative adaptation, dispute.