Hugh Collins
Hugh Collins, FBA (born 21 June 1953) is emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College.[1][2] He retains the former title as emeritus after Timothy Endicott took up the professorship on 1 July 2020.[3]
Until 2013, Collins was the Professor of English Law and former Head of the Law Department at the London School of Economics.[4] He was until 2013 the general editor for the Modern Law Review, the most widely read British academic law journal. Collins was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (later teaching at Brasenose College) and Harvard Law School before joining the LSE in 1991.[5]
Having a background in commercial law and contract law, Collins' most recent work has been focused on employment law and the possibility of regulating contracts for competitiveness and efficiency.
The LSE Law Department was rated first in the Research Assessment Exercise of 2008 while under Professor Collins' leadership.
In 2009–10 he was based in New York as Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU.
Publications
[edit]- European Civil Code: The Way Forward (2008)
- (with Keith Ewing and Aileen McColgan) Labour Law, Text, Cases and Materials (2005) Hart Publishing ISBN 1-84113-362-0
- Employment Law (2003) Clarendon
- Contract law: Law in Context (2003) Butterworths
- Regulating Contracts (1999) Oxford University Press
- Justice in Dismissal (1992) Oxford University Press
- Marxism and Law (1982) Oxford University Press
Notes
[edit]- COLLINS, Prof. Hugh Graham, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ^ "Staff page at All Souls College". All Souls College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 21 April 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ "Hugh Collins". Oxford Law Faculty. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Timothy Endicott elected to the Vinerian Professorship of English Law". Oxford Law Faculty. 23 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ LSE staff page
- ^ "Staff page at All Souls College". All Souls College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 21 April 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
External links
[edit]- eBook version of Regulating Contracts
