Hugh Collins

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Hugh Collins F.B.A. (b 1953) is the Professor of English Law and former 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. In January 2013, he was elected Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford as the successor to Andrew Ashworth. He will take up the Chair from October 2013.^[2]

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.

Publications

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

External links

British Academy page
LSE staff experts' page
Podcast of Labour Law lecture by Professor Collins
eBook version of Regulating Contracts

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