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Philippa Jane Rogerson is a solicitor and legal scholar. She is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, where her research covers the conflict of laws and company law. She is also a member of the University's Council, and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Gonville and Caius College.
Rogerson studied Economics and Law at Newnham College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1983, and went on to be admitted as a solicitor in 1986. She became a fellow of Caius in 1989 and was awarded her PhD in 1990 for a thesis entitled Intangible property in the conflict of laws.
In May 2017 the College announced that Rogerson was elected the next Master of Caius, succeeding Sir Alan Fersht when he retires at the end of September 2018. She will become the College's first female Master.