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Roderick Munday, Director of Studies in Law at Peterhouse, Cambridge and Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge

Roderick Munday is the Director of Studies in Law at Peterhouse and is Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge Having completed his undergraduate studies in Law at Cambridge and having begun research towards a doctorate, Dr Munday intermitted his research in order to take up a teaching post at the Institut de Droit Comparé, Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. Upon his return to Cambridge he was elected into a Research Fellowship at St. Catharine's College, but shortly afterwards translated to Peterhouse as an Official Fellow. In addition to directing studies, Dr Munday has held a number of substantial College offices over the years, including those of Senior Tutor and Admissions Tutor. He is also a bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

Dr Munday currently lectures in the Law Faculty on the Law of Contract, Commercial Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence, and Comparative Law. His research interests are varied, but have lately centred upon the Law of Evidence, Comparative Law and legal method. He has co-written the leading student textbook on the Law of Agency, and has recently published a fifth edition of his popular textbook on the Law of Evidence as well as co-editing a volume of essays on comparative legal studies. He is editor-in-chief of the Justice of the Peace Law Reports and has written extensively on the subject of law reporting. Dr Munday holds a part-time visiting professorial appointment at the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, and in the past has held visiting chairs at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Poitiers, the University of Kansas, the Victoria University of Wellington, and the University of Florida.