SCHOOL OF LAW

Jane Stapleton

Ernest E. Smith Professor

DPhil Oxford
LLB The Australian National University
PhD Adelaide University
BS The University of New South Wales

Jane Stapleton is one of the world's leading scholars on Products Liability and Tort Law generally. As a result of her work on three continents, she offers a comparative perspective that complements the Law School's strength in these fields. She continues to serve as a Research Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law in Canberra, Australia. Stapleton is also an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College and a Statutory Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University, where she taught for a dozen years before moving to the Australian National University in 1997. Her scholarship centers on the private law of obligations, liability and compensation systems, and ranges from comparative product liability to the philosophical foundations of common law concepts such as causation, duty, and good faith. Apart from authoring many journal articles, she is the author of Disease and the Compensation Debate (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986) and Products Liability (London: Butterworths, 1994), and co-editor of Essays for Patrick Atiyah (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) and The Law of Obligations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). From 2004 she has served as a Council Member of the American Law Institute (the first foreigner to be honored in this way) and is an Adviser to the current Restatement (Third) of Torts project.