Stephen Todd is a lawyer and a Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
In 1982, he began his tenure as a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and eventually advanced to a Professor of Law.
From 2004, Todd also holds a fractional position as Professor of Common Law at the University of Nottingham, where he gives lectures generally on pure economic loss and birth torts (wrongful birth, wrongful fertilisation).
[4] Sian Elias, former Chief Justice of New Zealand, remarked about Todd on Torts:[5] "The best legal writing both sparks the imagination and provides discipline.
[6] Todd is known by students to sing a number of songs about important torts cases during lectures, including Donoghue v Stevenson.