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Kathryn Biber

Kathryn Biber

Lawyer

Sep 30, 2026

Josh BornsteinNARRATOR
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tenable.But also the horrors of the war and the mass exodus of European people it caused led to a reevaluation of the law on a global scale.
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One of the things that Julius Stone was interested in introducing to the University of Sydney was international law.
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Today, we accept that it is an area of legal doctrine, but at this time, a huge amount of energy had gone into producing parts of international law in response to the Second World War.
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So international law was literally in formation and production in real time, and Stone was interested in engaging with that, and not everyone else at the University of Sydney thought that it was a legitimate field of law.
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But because the Second World War was producing international law, international legal institutions, and also international causes of action in response to the law, reparations, compensation, displaced people, these were all concepts that were produced by the Second World War.
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Genocide, all of these ideas were produced as new areas of law.
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So Stone was interested in that and was connected with other people in the world who were producing international law.

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And so I have indeed achieved to a certain degree that which I wished for in my youth.
Josh BornsteinNARRATOR
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[somber music]
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Camilla Wedgwood was born in England in 1901.
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She comes from a storied family.
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They're related to the Wedgwood potteries.
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They're also related to the Darwins.
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She's also related to the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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So she comes from this very kind of ruling class family that are cultured and intellectual.

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This is a textbook case of bureaucratic violence where categories are used in order to police the boundaries of inclusion, even when it results in some quite stark injustices or inhumane consequences.

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