Professor Janet O’Sullivan is Professor of Private Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Vice-Master of Selwyn College, where she is also Director of Studies in Law. Her principal areas of expertise are contract and tort law, with particular interests in remedies, professional negligence and the relationship between contractual and tortious liability.

Before entering academia, Professor O’Sullivan practised as a commercial solicitor at Slaughter and May from 1989 to 1994. She subsequently joined Selwyn College as a Fellow and later took up a lectureship in the University’s Faculty of Law. In 2005, she received the University of Cambridge’s Pilkington Teaching Prize for Excellence in University Teaching.

She has published extensively in contract and tort law and is the author of O’Sullivan & Hilliard’s The Law of Contract, now in its 11th edition.