Professor

Real name:
Brian Cheffins

Fellow, Research Member

S J Berwin Professor of Corporate Law

Faculty of Law, Cambridge University

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Brian R. Cheffins has been since 1998 the S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law at Cambridge University. He began his academic career at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Law, where he taught from 1986 to 1997. Professor Cheffins has held visiting appointments at Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002, was awarded a Harvard Business School business history fellowship in 2014 and received a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2015. His primary research interests are corporate governance, corporate law and business history.

Professor Cheffins is the author of Company Law: Theory, Structure and Operation (Oxford, 1997), The Trajectory of (Corporate Law) Scholarship (Cambridge, 2004) and Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed (Oxford, 2008). He was the editor of The History of Modern US Corporate Governance (Edward Elgar, 2011).

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Research interests

Research Interests:

Company law, Corporate governance, Law and economics

Working papers

History

Law and History by Numbers: Use, But with Care

Brian Cheffins

Steven Bank

Harwell Wells

01 November 2013

Takeovers

The Origins of the Market for Corporate Control

John Armour

Brian Cheffins

01 September 2013

Hedge Fund Activism Canadian Style

Brian Cheffins

01 March 2013

The Undermining of UK Corporate Governance (?)

Brian Cheffins

01 March 2013

History

The History of Corporate Governance

Brian Cheffins

01 January 2012

Regulating IPOs: Evidence from Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913

David Chambers

Carsten Burhop

Brian Cheffins

01 July 2011

Delaware's Balancing Act

John Armour

Bernard Black

Brian Cheffins

01 November 2010

Litigation,
US

Is Delaware Losing Its Cases?

John Armour

Bernard Black

Brian Cheffins

01 April 2010

The Corporate Pyramid Fable

Steven Bank

Brian Cheffins

01 March 2010

The Rise and Fall (?) of Shareholder Activism by Hedge Funds

John Armour

Brian Cheffins

01 September 2009

Co Authors

Co-Authors

Professor

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Bernard Black

Fellow, Research Member

Northwestern University Law School and Kellogg School of Management Law School

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Carsten Burhop

Professor

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David Chambers

University of Cambridge, Judge Business School

Professor

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Marc Goergen

Research Member

IE Business School

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Harwell Wells

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Hwa-Jin Kim

Professor

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John Armour

Fellow, Research Member

University of Oxford, Faculty of Law

Professor

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Michael Klausner

Research Member

Stanford Law School

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Linia Prava

Professor

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Martin Gelter

Research Member

Fordham University School of Law

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Richard Nolan

Professor

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Mathias Siems

Research Member

Durham University

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Steven A. Bank

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Steven Bank