 In 1970, at the height of his career, he left his fellowship at All Souls College and his chair, Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford), and moved to California, where he became Professor-in-Residence at UC-Berkeley's law school, Boalt Hall, where he taught for the rest of his life.He married again in 1986.Daube's teachers include Otto Lenel, who "encouraged" him to take up the study of legal history in the first place, according to Daube's notes in his first published book, "Studies in Biblical Law."