Stephen Waddams
{{Short description|Canadian legal scholar (1942–2023)}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Stephen Waddams
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC|size=100%}}
| birth_name = Stephen Michael Waddams
| birth_place = Woking, England
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1942|09|30}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2023|05|27|1942|09|30}}
| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| discipline = Law
| sub_discipline = Contracts law
Legal history
| workplaces = University of Toronto Faculty of Law
| education = University of Toronto (BA, LLB)
University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
University of Michigan (LLM, SJD)
}}
Stephen Michael Waddams {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (September 30, 1942 – May 27, 2023) was an English-born Canadian legal scholar. He taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty_content.asp?profile=57&cType=facMembers&itemPath=1/3/4/0/0|author=University of Toronto|title=Faculty of Law:Faculty Pages|accessdate=2008-11-27|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201073419/https://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty_content.asp?profile=57&cType=facMembers&itemPath=1%2F3%2F4%2F0%2F0|archivedate=2008-12-01}}
Early life and education
Waddams was born in Woking, England, and moved to Canada as a teenager in 1959.{{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/stephen-waddams-obituary?id=52130715 |title=Stephen Michael Waddams |work=The Globe and Mail |via=Legacy.com |access-date=June 11, 2023}} He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. As a law student, he was editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review in 1968.{{cite journal |last=Maclaren |first=Malcolm |year=1997 |title=A History of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review |url=http://www.utflr.org/navigation/abstracts/ultr55_2/55_2_375.htm |journal=University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review |volume=55 |number=2 |accessdate=2009-10-03}} Waddams earned a Master of Arts and PhD from the University of Cambridge, followed by a Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Michigan Law School.
Career
Waddams' specialty was contract law and he published seven books on it and other private law topics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.carswell.com/authors/showprofile.asp?aid=574|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708122608/http://www.carswell.com/authors/showprofile.asp?aid=574|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-07-08|accessdate=2008-11-27|title=Carswell Authors}} In 1988, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page_id=96&lang_id=1&first_name=Stephen&last_name=Waddams&academy=&institute_name=&year_election=&submit=Search|title=Membership|author=RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada|accessdate=2008-11-27}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} From 1988 to 1989, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Fellows...Former Visitors |url=http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/fellows/formerv.php?init=w |accessdate=2008-11-27 |author=All Souls College |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024215202/http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/fellows/formerv.php?init=w |archivedate=October 24, 2008 }}
Death
Books
- Products Liability (Carswell, Toronto, 1974; subsequent editions in 1980, 1993, and 2002).
- The Law of Contracts (Canada Law Book, Toronto, 1977; subsequent editions in 1984, 1993, 1999, and 2005).
- Introduction to the Study of Law (Carswell, Toronto, 1979; subsequent editions in 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2004).
- The Law of Damages (Canada Law Book, Toronto, 1983; subsequent editions in 1991, 1997, and 2004).
- Law, Politics, and the Church of England: the career of Stephen Lushington, 1782 - 1873 (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
- Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815–1855 (University of Toronto Press, 2000).
- Dimensions of Private Law: Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
- Principles and Policy in Contract Law: Competing or Complementary Perspectives? (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age: Equity, Fairness and Enrichment (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
References
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External links
- [http://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/stephen-waddams University of Toronto bio]
- [http://ssrn.com/author=88251 SSRN profile]
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Category:Canadian legal scholars
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Category:University of Michigan alumni
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Category:Legal scholars of the University of Oxford