Simon Deakin

Simon Deakin FBA
Deakin delivering a lecture in 2017
Born	(1961-03-26) 26 March 1961
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Thesis	Contract, Labour Law and the Developing Employment Relationship (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Brian Napier Frank Wilkinson
Academic work
Discipline	Law
Sub-discipline	Labour law social rights economics of law
Institutions	Peterhouse, Cambridge
Main interests	Labour law private law corporate governance

Simon Deakin FBA (born 26 March 1961) is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Cambridge, and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is regarded as the leading expert in the field of employment law and labour law and is the programme director in the Cambridge Centre for Business Research (CBR), as well as 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. 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.

Personal life

Deakin lives in Cambridge with his wife. They have one son.

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

External links

• Simon Deakin at Cambridge Faculty of Law
• Simon Deakin at Cambridge Centre for Business Research
• Project on Law, Finance and Development