Stephen Waddams is a

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legal scholar. He has taught at the

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since 1968.

Education

Waddams earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the

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and

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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

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, followed by a Master of Laws and

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from the

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Career

Waddams' specialty is

contract law A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between them. A contract typically involves the transfer of goods, services, money, or a promise to tran ...

and he has published seven books on it and other private law topics. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1988. From 1988-1989, he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Books

*''The Law of Contracts'', 1977 *''Introduction to the Study of Law'', 1979 *''The Law of Damages'', 1983 *''Dimensions of Private Law: Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Reasoning'', 2003 *''Principles and Policy in Contract Law: Competing or Complementary Perspectives?'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011). *''Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age: Equity, Fairness and Enrichment'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

References

External links

University of Toronto bioSSRN profile
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