Professor Peter Cane FBA

From 1978-1997 Peter Cane taught law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was Research Professor of Law in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University from 1997-2007, and Distinguished Research Professor of Law in the ANU College of Law from 2007-2016. He was educated at Sydney University in classics and law, and in 1976 completed a BCL at Magdalen College, Oxford, being awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. He was awarded the degree of DCL by Oxford University in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. In 2002, Peter served on a panel appointed by the nine Australian governments to review the law of negligence, leading to the enactment of major legislation in all Australian jurisdictions. In 2011 he delivered the Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence at the British Academy on concepts of law and morality, and their interaction. In 2011-2012 he jointly held the Arthur L Goodhart Visiting Professorship of Legal Science at Cambridge University. Peter lives in Cambridge where his wife, Professor Jane Stapleton FBA, is Master of Christ's College.