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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jeremy Horder FBA
The history and theory of criminal and regulatory liability in English law; liability for bribery, corruption and homicide
Professor John Langbein FBA
English, European & American legal history; comparative law, with particular attention to modern German civil & criminal procedure; Anglo-American equity, trust, pension & employee benefit law.
Prof Dr Dr hc Mult Christian Von Bar FBA
German and european private law; comparative law; private international law
