William Warwick Buckland, FBA (11 June 1859 – 16 January 1946) was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945.
[1] William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering.
He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos.
[2] Elected a Fellow of Caius, he remained a Cambridge academic for the remainder of his life.
He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh (1922),[3] Harvard (1929),[4] Lyon, Louvain and Paris.