Jane Stapleton KC FBA (born 26 March 1952)[1] is an Australian academic lawyer with a specialism in tort law.
She 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.
From 1997 to 2016 she held a Research Chair in Law at the Australian National University where she is now an Emeritus Distinguished Professor.
She also studies the philosophical principles underlying common law, including duty and the relationship of causation to consequences.
[3][4][5] Her publications include the books Disease and the Compensation Debate (1986), Products Liability (1994)[3] and Three Essays on Torts (2021).She was a co-editor of OUP's Clarendon Law Series (1992–97).
[8] 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.