Simon Deakin

Simon Deakin
FBA
Born (1961-03-26) 26 March 1961
Occupation Professor of law
Title Professor of Law, Director of Research
Academic background
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline Lawyer
Sub-discipline labour law, social rights, and the economics of law
Institutions Peterhouse College, Cambridge
Main interests labour law, private law, and corporate governance

Simon Deakin (born 26 March 1961)[1] is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He is a programme director in the Cambridge Centre for Business Research (CBR), and an associate Faculty member of the Judge Business School.

Education

Deakin holds a BA and a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Yorke Prize for legal writing.[2] He took up his first lecturing post at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, in 1987, after a year as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago. He joined the Cambridge Law Faculty in 1990 (first as a lecturer, then as a reader). He was appointed Professor of Law in 2005.

Career

Deakin was a visiting fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin, Nantes, in 1993 and 1995, and the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne, in 1996. In 2003 he was BNL Visiting Professor of European Law at Columbia University and in 2004 a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence. Since 2004 he has been Omron visiting fellow at Doshisha University, Kyoto. From 2001 to 2006 he was the Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance in the Judge Business School at Cambridge. In 2005, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

Present research projects include work on law, finance and development; reflexive governance in the public interest; gender equality and corporate governance; and capabilities and labour markets in Europe.

Politics

In August 2015, Deakin endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.[3]

Publications

Books
  • Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law 6th ed (OUP 2007)
  • Labour Law 4th ed (Hart 2005) (with Gillian Morris)
  • The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (OUP 2005) (with Frank Wilkinson)
  • Contracts, Co-operation, and Competition: Studies in Economics, Management, and Law (OUP 1997) (ed with Jonathan Mitchie)
Articles
  • '‘Enterprise‐Risk’: The Juridical Nature of the Firm Revisited' (2003) 32(2) ILJ 97

References

  1. ↑ DEAKIN, Prof. Simon Francis, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/member.php?member_id=142
  3. ↑ "The Labour party stands at a crossroads". The Guardian. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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