Stephen Waddams

Biographic Data

ID5712614
NAMEStephen Waddams
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMEWaddams
SIGNATUREWADDAMS S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Equity in English Contract Law

    Stephen WaddamsARTICLEThe Journal of Legal History2012

    Just before the Judicature Acts came into force, the equity bar objected that the new court would be dominated by common law judges, whose ignorance of equity would ‘endanger the very existence of Equity jurisprudence’. This objection, though ridiculed at the time, can be seen in retrospect to have had some substance. In respect of several important aspects of contract law, notably unfairness, mistake, and privity, former equitable approaches wer…

  • Principle and Policy in Contract Law

    Stephen WaddamsBOOKPrinciple and Policy in Contract…2011

  • Authority, Precedent, and Principle

    Stephen WaddamsARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal2009

  • Epistemology and Method in Law

    Stephen Waddams, Geoffrey SamuelARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal2003

    This book seeks to question the widely held assumption in Europe that to have knowledge of law is simply to have knowledge of rules. There is a knowledge dimension beyond the symbolic which reaches right into the way facts are perceived, constructed and deconstructed. In support of this thesis the book examines, generally, the question of what it is to have knowledge of law; and this examination embraces not just the conceptual foundations, metho…

  • Jurists and Judges

    Stephen Waddams, Neil DuxburyARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal2002

    Jurists and Judges examines the nature of academic influence,and particularly the influence of juristic commentary on judicial decision-making. Focusing on three legal systems, its author argues that inter-jurisdictional comparisons of juristic influence are often simplistic and inattentive to problems of incommensurability. The centrepiece of the study is a detailed chapter offering a nuanced history of juristic influence in England. All academi…

  • Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England

    Martin Ingram, S M Waddams et al.ARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal2002

  • Contractual Non-Disclosure

    S M Waddams, Stephen Waddams et al.ARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal1995

  • Broken Lives

    Stephen Waddam, S M Waddams et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1994Cited by: 9

    Journal Article Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660–1857 Get access Stone Lawrence, Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660–1857. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. xviii, 355 pp. $35.00. S. M. Waddams S. M. Waddams University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 38, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 104–105, https://doi.org/10.23…

  • Law, Politics and the Church of England

    William Tetley, S M Waddams et al.ARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal1993

  • Law, Politics and the Church of England-The Career of Stephen Lushington 1782-1873

    Henry J Bourguignon, S M Waddams et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1993

    Journal Article Law, Politics and the Church of England—The Career of Stephen Lushington 1782–1873 Get access Waddams S.M., Law, Politics and the Church of England—The Career of Stephen Lushington 1782–1873. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxii, 364 pp. $64.95. Henry J. Bourguignon Henry J. Bourguignon University of Toledo, College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Leg…

  • Sir William Scott, Lord Stowell

    S M Waddams, Stephen Waddams et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1989

    Journal Article Sir William Scott, Lord Stowell: Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, 1798–1828 Get access Bourguignon Henry J., Sir William Scott, Lord Stowell: Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, 1798–1828. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiv, 310 pp. $49.50. S.M. Waddams S.M. Waddams Faculty of Law University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, V…

  • The Law of Damages

    M G Bridge, S M Waddams et al.ARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal1986

  • Duff

    S M Waddams, Stephen Waddams et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1986

    Journal Article Duff: A Life in the Law and Sir John Beverley Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact Get access Williams David Ricardo, Duff: A Life in the Law, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press in association with the Osgoode Society, 1984. 341 pp. $34.95 ($28.50 US).Brode Patrick, Sir John Beverley Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 1984. x, 326 pp. $45.00 cloth,…

  • Damages for Wrongful Death

    Open AccessS M Waddams, Stephen WaddamsARTICLEModern Law Review1984

  • Unconscionability in Contracts

    Open AccessS M Waddams, Stephen WaddamsARTICLEModern Law Review1976

  • The Strict Liability of Suppliers of Goods

    Open AccessS M Waddams, Stephen WaddamsARTICLEModern Law Review1974

  • The Consumer and the Law in Canada

    S M Waddams, Stephen Waddams et al.ARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal1971

  • Strict Liability, Warranties, and the Sale of Goods

    S M Waddams, Stephen WaddamsARTICLEUniversity of Toronto Law Journal1969