Professor of Law
Judge Institute of Management
University of Cambridge

Email: s.deakin@cbr.cam.ac.uk
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Biography

Simon Deakin has been the Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance at the University of Cambridge, since the autumn of 2001. He currently teaches employment law and private law in the Faculty of Law and corporate governance in the Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge. He has held visiting positions at Columbia Law School, the European University Institute, Florence, and Doshisha Business School, Kyoto. Since 1994 he has led an interdisciplinary programme of research into corporate governance at the Centre for Business Research in Cambridge.

Selected publications:

The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (with F. Wilkinson) (Oxford University Press, 2005)

'Shareholder primacy and the trajectory of UK corporate governance' British Journal of Industrial Relations 41: 531-555, 2003 (with J. Armour and S. Konzelmann).

'Insolvency and employment protection: the mixed effects of the Acquired Rights Directive, International Review of Law and Economics , 23: 1-23, 2003 (with J. Armour).

'Evolution for our time: a theory of legal memetics', Current Legal Problems , 55: 1-42, 2002

'Two types of regulatory competition: competitive federalism versus reflexive harmonisation. A law and economics perspective on Centros' Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , 2: 231-260, 1999.