Jane Stapleton, an Australian lawyer (ANU, LLB; Oxford, DPhil and DCL), is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney and a Distinguished Professor Emerita at The Australian National University. She has held academic posts at Oxford, the University of Texas and The Australian National University as well as a number of visiting professorships including at Cambridge (as the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science), Harvard, Columbia and the European University Institute. Her academic interests which centre on private law particularly causation, economic loss and the duty of care, have led her to act as a consultant in commercial, pharmaceutical, medical and environmental litigation in the US and UK.
She is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, an Emeritus Council Member of the American Law Institute, an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn, an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2020 she was appointed an Honorary Queen’s Counsel by HM Queen Elizabeth II. In 2022 Jane stepped down as the 38th Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge where she is a Life Fellow.
