Author Biography
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dayle Smith was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He completed undergraduate degrees in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and postgraduate degrees in Master of Laws and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. His thesis for the Master of Laws degree has as its centre- piece the Pact of Paris of 1926 and its effects in international law as at 1 September 1939 and was submitted in December 1985. He studied this subject in Queensland at the University of Queensland Library where Sir William Webb's vast personal collection of papers were then lodged, at the Australian War Museum in Canberra, in Japan at the library of the Japan Times, at the Tokyo Diet Library, the Supreme Court vault in Tokyo that houses many of the defence documents that were rejected, and at the Imperial War Museum in London. He presented a 15,000 word paper on the Tokyo War Crimes Trial to the Law faculty of the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, and made a similar presentation in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, Queensland where he spoke to the topic 'Sir William Webb' dealing with one half of Chapter 5 that he had written for the publication 'Queensland Judges on the High Court', published by the Supreme Court Library of Queensland in 2003 ISBN 0 975 12300 9. Smith is a keen reader of history and studied history as part of a Master's degree program with the University of New England. He currently practises as a Barrister at law in Brisbane, Australia.