13 Facts About Jane Stapleton

Jane Stapleton was born on 26 March 1952 and is an Australian academic lawyer with a specialism in tort law.

Jane Stapleton is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Jane Stapleton initially studied science, gaining a BSc in chemistry from the University of New South Wales and a PhD in physical organic chemistry from the University of Adelaide supervised by John Hamilton Bowie.

Jane Stapleton came to the UK in the mid-1970s and in 1977 took up a post-doctoral research post at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge in the laboratory of Dudley Williams.

Jane Stapleton gained an LLB from the Australian National University, followed by a DPhil in private law from the University of Oxford.

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Jane Stapleton's thesis, supervised by Patrick Atiyah, was on compensation for non-traumatic injuries.

Jane Stapleton remained a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2015.

In March 2016, Stapleton was elected the 38th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, succeeding Frank Kelly.

Jane Stapleton retains her early interest in compensation for non-traumatic injuries, such as drug-induced injury and cancer, and her subsequent interest in product liability.

Jane Stapleton's publications include the books Disease and the Compensation Debate, Products Liability and Three Essays on Torts.

Jane Stapleton was a co-editor of OUP's Clarendon Law Series.

Jane Stapleton was awarded the Wedderburn Prize, the William L Prosser Award of the Association of American Law Schools, the Robert B McKay Law Professor Award of the American Bar Association and the John Fleming Prize in Tort Law.

Jane Stapleton was elected a Member of the American Law Institute, the first non-US Member of the Institute's Council, an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.