Peter Gonville Stein, QC, FBA (29 May 1926 – 7 August 2016) was a British legal scholar. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at the

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from 1956 to 1968 and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the

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from 1968 until his retirement in 1993.

Biography

Peter Stein was educated at

Liverpool College Liverpool College is a coeducational day and boarding school in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England. It was one of the thirteen founding members of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, Headmasters' Conference. History Liverpool Coll ...

and later studied at

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, where he obtained his BA in 1949.''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black Limited. Online edition, 2020 He obtained his LLB in Cambridge as an external in 1950, and became a solicitor in 1951. He completed a scholarship at the

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before becoming an Assistant Lecturer in Law in the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

, in 1952. He then moved to the

, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of

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. He was Lecturer (1953-56) and then Professor (1956-1968) in Jurisprudence at the

. Back to Cambridge, Stein was Regius Professor of Civil Law and Fellow of

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between 1968 and 1993. He remained Emeritus Professor of Civil Law and Life Fellow of Queens' College until his death in 2016.

Honours

In 1974, Stein was elected

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(FBA). On 20 April 1993, he was appointed an honorary

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(QC). He was also President of the Academy of the European Private Lawyers - Accademia dei Giusprivatisti Europei (Pavia).

Selected works

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* * * * * * * 1926 births 2016 deaths British solicitors Academics of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Place of birth missing British King's Counsel Fellows of the British Academy Regius Professors of Civil Law (University of Cambridge) Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Honorary King's Counsel People educated at Liverpool College {{UK-academic-bio-stub