Jane Stapleton

Stapleton was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1952. ==Career and research==

In 1987 she was elected a Fellow of Balliol College and taught at the University of Oxford until 1997. From 1997 to 2016 she held a Research Chair in Law at the Australian National University. From 2002 to 2015 she was the Ernest E. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. In March 2016, Stapleton was elected the 38th Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, succeeding Frank Kelly. She assumed the position in September 2016. She studies the philosophical principles underlying the common law, including duty and the relationship of causation to consequences. Her publications include the books Disease and the Compensation Debate (1986), Products Liability (1994) and Three Essays on Torts (2021). ==Personal life==

She is married to Peter Cane, also a law professor. They have a son and a daughter. ==Awards and honours etc==

She was awarded the Wedderburn Prize (1995), the William L. Prosser Award (2013), the Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award (2016) and the John Fleming Prize in Tort Law (2018). In 2018, the University of Adelaide bestowed on her the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa). In 2020 she was appointed an Honorary Queen's Counsel by the Queen. == Controversy ==

In 2017, she was accused of mishandling an investigation into anti-Semitic behaviour at Christ's College, after two students were abused by members of the college's sporting societies. In a statement released by the College, she admitted she had given the "seriously misleading impression" the victims' claims had been rejected and apologised to the students. ==References==