title: Stephen Waddams
text: # Stephen Waddams
  
  Stephen Michael Waddams FRSC (September 30, 1942 – May 27, 2023) 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.
  
  ## Career
  
  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.
  
  ## Death
  
  Waddams died on May 27, 2023, at the age of 80.
  
  ## Books
  
  * Products Liability (Carswell, Toronto, 1974; subsequent editions in 1980, 1993, and 2002).
  * The Law of Contracts (Canada Law Book, Toronto, 1977; subsequent editions in 1984, 1993, 1999, and 2005).
  * Introduction to the Study of Law (Carswell, Toronto, 1979; subsequent editions in 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2004).
  * The Law of Damages (Canada Law Book, Toronto, 1983; subsequent editions in 1991, 1997, and 2004).
  * Law, Politics, and the Church of England: the career of Stephen Lushington, 1782 - 1873 (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
  * Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815–1855 (University of Toronto Press, 2000).
  * Dimensions of Private Law: Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 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).
  