Professor Peter Cane FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2007
- Subjects
- Law
- Sections
- Law
Summary
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.
Current post
Senior Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge; Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Law, Australian National University
Past appointments
Christ's College University of Cambridge Senior Research Fellow
2017 -
Australian National University Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Law
2016 -
Australian National University Distinguished Professor of Law
2007 - 2016
Australian National University Professor of Law
1997 - 2007
University of Oxford Lecturer (1978-1996), Reader (1996) and Professor of Law (1997)
1978 - 1997
Corpus Christi College University of Oxford Official (then Emeritus) Fellow
1978 -
University of Sydney Lecturer in Law
1976 - 1977
Publications
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Professor John Hudson FBA
Medieval legal history; medieval historical writing; nineteenth-century scholarship on legal history, especially the work of F W Maitland
Rt Hon Dame Siobhan Keegan Hon FBA
The Rt Hon Dame Siobhan Keegan Hon FBA is a Barrister (family, civil law), High Court judge (public, coronial law) and Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, President of Civil, Criminal and Coroners’ Courts.
Professor Jane Ginsburg FBA
Intellectual property law (copyright & trade marks) & private international law, from sixteenth century Papal printing priviledges to digital media in domestic & international law.
