Hugh Collins F.B.A. is the Professor of English Law and Head of the Law Department at the London School of Economics.[1] He is also the general editor for the Modern Law Review, the most widely read British academic law journal. Collins was educated at Pembroke College in Oxford University (later teaching at Brasenose) and Harvard University before joining the LSE in 1991.
Having a background in commercial law and contract law, Collins' most recent work has been focussed 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.