Stephen Waddams

Stephen Michael Waddams was an English-born Canadian legal scholar. He taught at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Early life and education

Waddams was born in Woking, England, and moved to Canada as a teenager in 1959. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. As a law student, he was editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review in 1968. Waddams earned a Master of Arts and PhD from the University of Cambridge, followed by a Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Michigan Law School.

Waddams' specialty was contract law and he published seven books on it and other private law topics. In 1988, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. From 1988 to 1989, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Waddams died on May 27, 2023, at the age of 80.

Products Liability.
The Law of Contracts.
Introduction to the Study of Law.
The Law of Damages.
Law, Politics, and the Church of England: the career of Stephen Lushington, 1782 - 1873.
Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815–1855.
Dimensions of Private Law: Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Reasoning.
Principles and Policy in Contract Law: Competing or Complementary Perspectives?.
Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age: Equity, Fairness and Enrichment.