Room	: W6.07 JBS
Tel	: 01223 765339
Fax	: 01223 765338

Room	: C3 Old Court
Tel	: 01223 338233

Peterhouse

M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.)

Professor of Law

Labour Law, Company Law, Tort Law, Contract Law, Law and Economics, EU Law

Simon Deakin is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, specializing in labour law, private law, company law, law and economics, and EU law. He is a programme director in the Cambridge Centre for Business Research, and an associate Faculty member of the Judge Business School. 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. He 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 2001 he became Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance in the Judge Business School at Cambridge. In 2002 he gave the ILO Social Policy Lectures at the Central European University, Budapest. 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. He returned to the Cambridge Law Faculty to take up his current post in 2006. His books include Tort Law (5th. ed. with Basil Markesinis and Angus Johnston), Labour Law (4th. ed. 2005, with Gillian S. Morris) and The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (2005, with Frank Wilkinson). He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, the Industrial Law Journal (UK), and the Cambridge Journal of Economics. He was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 2005.

In May 2010, Professor Deakin (writing with John Armour, Priya Lele and Mathias Siems) received the Allen & Overy Law Prize in the 2010 Working Paper Competition run by the European Corporate Governance Institute. He was also a recipient of the ECGI Law prize in 2009.