Peter Stein (legal scholar)

Peter Gonville Stein, QC, FBA (29 May 1926 – 7 August 2016) was a British solicitor and academic. 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 to 1993.^[1][2]

Peter Stein studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained his BA in 1949. He obtained his LLB in Cambridge as an external in 1950, and became a solicitor in 1951. He visited the University of Pavia for a year 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,^[3] and he was Lecturer (1953-56) and then Professor (1956-1968) in Jurisprudence.^[2]

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.^[3]

Honours

In 1974, Stein was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).^[1] On 20 April 1993, he was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel (QC).^[4] He was also President of the Academy of the European Private Lawyers (Pavia).

Works

• 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. 
• The character and influence of the Roman civil law: historical essays (1988)
• Roman law in European history (1999)

References