Peter Stein (legal scholar)

Peter Gonville Stein, QC, FBA (29 May 1926 – 7 August 2016) was a British legal scholar.[1] He was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Aberdeen from 1956 to 1968 and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 until his retirement in 1993.[2][3]

Peter Stein was educated at Liverpool College and later studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained his BA in 1949.[4] He obtained his LLB in Cambridge as an external in 1950, and became a solicitor in 1951. He completed a scholarship at the University of Pavia before becoming an Assistant Lecturer in Law in the University of Nottingham, in 1952. He then moved to the University of Aberdeen, where he obtained his PhD,[5] and he was Lecturer (1953-56) and then Professor (1956-1968) in Jurisprudence.[3]

Back to Cambridge, Stein was Regius Professor of Civil Law and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge between 1968 and 1993. He remained Emeritus Professor of Civil Law and Life Fellow of Queens' College until his death in 2016.[5]

Honours

In 1974, Stein was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[2] On 20 April 1993, he was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel (QC).[6] He was also President of the Academy of the European Private Lawyers - Accademia dei Giusprivatisti Europei (Pavia).

Works
  • Fault in the formation of contract in Roman law and Scots law (1958)
  • Regulae Juris: from juristic rules to legal maxims (1966)
  • Stein, Peter; Shand, John (1974). Legal values in western society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0852242573.
  • Stein, Peter (1980). Legal Evolution: The Story of an Idea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521108004.
  • Stein, Peter (1984). Legal Institutions: The Development of Dispute Settlement. London: Butterworths. ISBN 0406400261.
  • The character and influence of the Roman civil law: historical essays (1988)
  • Stein, Peter (1999). Roman law in European history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-511-03674-4.

References
  1. "Obituary: Peter Stein: Cambridge Regius Professor of Civil Law who explored the whole field of the Roman legal tradition". The Daily Telegraph. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. "STEIN, Professor Peter, QC (h.c)". British Academy Fellows. The British Academy. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. Dingle, Lesley; Bates, Daniel. "Professor Peter Stein". Squire Law Library. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  4. Who Was Who, Published by A&C Black Limited. Online edition, 2020
  5. "Fellows 1900-1999". Queens' College, Cambridge. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  6. "No. 53284". The London Gazette. 23 April 1993. p. 7209.


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