Publications by Professor Simon F Deakin
Full list of publications by Professor Simon F Deakin.
- Simon F Deakin, Christopher Markou, Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence, Hart Publishing, 2022
- Simon F Deakin, Zoe Adams, Catherine Barnard, Sarah Fraser Butlin, Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, Hart Publishing, 2021
- Simon F Deakin, Zoe Adams, Markesinis & Deakin's Tort Law, Oxford University Press, 2019
- Simon F Deakin, Mark Freedland, Alan Bogg, David Cabrelli, Hugh Collins, Nicola Countouris, A.C.L. Davies, Jeremias Prassl, The Contract of Employment, Oxford University Press, 2016
- Simon F Deakin, Katharina Pistor, Katharina Pistor, Katharina Pistor, Legal Origin Theory, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012
- Simon F Deakin, John Buchanan, Dominic Heesang Chai, John Buchanan, Dominic Heesang Chai, Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy, 2012
- Simon F Deakin, D. Hugh Whittaker, D. Hugh Whittaker, Corporate Governance and Managerial Reform in Japan, Oxford University Press, 2009
- Simon F Deakin, Alain Supiot (Ed), Alain Supiot (Ed), Capacitas: Contract Law and the Institutional Preconditions of a Market Economy, Hart Publishing, 2009
- Simon F Deakin, Frank Wilkinson, Frank Wilkinson, The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution, Oxford University Press, 2005
- Simon F Deakin, Catharine Barnard, Gillian S. Morris (Eds), Catharine Barnard, Gillian S. Morris (Eds), The Future of Labour Law, Hart Publishing, 2004
- Simon F Deakin, Brendan Burchell, Jonathan Michie, Jill Rubery, Brendan Burchell, Jonathan Michie, Jill Rubery, Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance, Routledge, 2002
- Simon F Deakin, Richard A. Epstein, Richard A. Epstein, Equal Opportunity or More Opportunity?: The Good Thing About Discrimination, Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2002
- Simon F Deakin, Basil Markesinis, Jean-Bernard Auby, Coester Waltjen, Basil Markesinis, Jean-Bernard Auby, Coester Waltjen, The Tortious Liability of Statutory Bodies, Hart Publishing, 1999
- Simon F Deakin, Jonathan Michie (Ed), Jonathan Michie (Ed), Contracts, Co-operation, and Competition: Studies in Economics, Management, and Law, Oxford University Press, 1997
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Employment and wage policies in a post-neoliberal world’, in Economic Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World (eds Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer), Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
- Simon F Deakin, Shelley Marshall, Sanjay Pinto, ‘Labour laws, informality, and development: comparing India and China’, in Re-imagining Labour Law for Development: Informal Work in the Global North and South (eds Diamond Ashiagbor), Hart Publishing, 2020
- Simon F Deakin, ‘The capability approach and the economics of labour law’, in The Capability Approach to Labour Law (eds Brian Langille), Oxford University Press, 2019
- Simon F Deakin, Zoe Adams, ‘Structural adjustment, economic governance and social policy in a regional context: the case of the eurozone crisis’, in Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law (eds Adelle Blackett and Anne Trebilcock), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015
- Simon F Deakin, Zoe Adams, ‘Quantitative labour law’, in New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research (eds Amy Ludlow and Alysia Blackham), Hart Publishing, 2015
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Equality law and the limits of the 'business case' for addressing gender inequalities’, in Gendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction (eds Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex and Anke Plagnol), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012
- Simon F Deakin, ‘The Lisbon Treaty, the Viking and Laval judgments, and the financial crisis: in search of new foundations for Europe’s 'social market economy'’, in The Lisbon Treaty and Social Europe (eds Niklas Bruun, Klaus Lörcher and Isabelle Schömann), Hart Publishing, 2012
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Corporate governance and financial crisis in the long run’, in The Embedded Firm: Corporate Governance, Labor, and Finance Capitalism (eds Cynthia Williams and Peer Zumbansen), 2011
- Simon F Deakin, ‘The evidence-based case for labour regulation’, in Regulating for Decent Work: New Directions in Labour Market Regulation (eds Sangheon Lee and Deirdre McCann), Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- Simon F Deakin, ‘System and evolution in corporate governance’, in Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory (eds Peer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011
- Simon F Deakin, ‘The contribution of labour law to economic and human development’, in The Idea of Labour Law (eds Guy Davidov and Brian Langille), Oxford University Press, 2011
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Labor and employment laws’, in The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research (eds Peter Cane and Herbert Kritzer), Oxford University Press, 2010
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Reflexive approaches to corporate governance: the case of Heathrow Terminal 5’, in Reflexive Governance: Redefining the Public Interest in a Pluralistic World (eds Jacques Lenoble and Olivier de Schutter), Hart Publishing, 2010
- Simon F Deakin, Frank Wilkinson, ‘Minimum wage legislation’, in Labor and Employment Law and Economics (eds Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Seth Harris and Orley Lobel), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009
- Simon F Deakin, Ding Chen, ‘The birth of insolvency in China: judicial innovation during the Wenzhou curb crisis’, (2025) Journal of Corporate Studies Published online: 21 Mar 2025
- Simon F Deakin, Linda Shuku, ‘Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo-Welsh poor law, 1691-1834’, (2025) 52 Journal of Law and Society 3-33
- Simon F Deakin, Kamelia Pourkermani, ‘The effects of labour laws on productivity, employment, unemployment and the labour share of national income: analysis of new evidence from the Cambridge Leximetric Database, with a UK-China comparison’, (2024) 46 Global Law Review 5-26
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Failing to succeed? The Cambridge School and the economic case for the minimum wage’, (2022) 38 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 211-26
- Simon F Deakin, Mathias Siems, Prabirjit Sarkar, ‘Is there a relationship between shareholder protection and stock market development?’, (2018) 3 Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting 115-146, 2022
- Simon F Deakin, Svetlana Borodina, John Hamilton, ‘The rule of law as an emergent social norm: evidence from qualitative research in Russia’, (2022) 15 Law and Development Review 1-31
- Simon F Deakin, Christopher Markou, ‘Evolutionary law and economics: theory and method’, (2021) 72 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 682-712
- Simon F Deakin, Ding Chen, Andrew Johnston, Boya Wang, ‘Too much technology and too little regulation? The spectacular demise of P2P lending in China’, (2022) Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium, 2021
- Simon F Deakin, Gaofeng Meng, ‘Resolving Douglass C. North's 'puzzle' concerning China's Household Responsibility System’, (2021) Journal of Institutional Economics
- Simon F Deakin, Ding Chen, ‘When formal finance meets the informal: the case of Wenzhou’, (2021) 22 Journal of Banking Regulation 208-218
- Simon F Deakin, Gaofeng Meng, ‘The governance of Covid-19: anthropogenic risk, evolutionary learning, and the future of the social state’, (2020) 29 Industrial Law Journal 539-94
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Decoding employment status’, (2020) 31 King's Law Journal 180-193
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Thirty years on: labour market deregulation and its aftermath in New Zealand and the United Kingdom’, (2019) 50 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 193-213
- Simon F Deakin, John Buchanan, Dominic H. Chai, ‘Taking a horse to water? Prospects for the Japanese corporate governance code’, (2019) 24 Zeitschrift für Japanisches Rech 69-108
- Simon F Deakin, Zoe Adams, Louise Bishop, Colin Fenwick, Sara Martinsson Garzelli, Giudy Rusconi, ‘The economic significance of laws relating to employment protection and different forms of employment: analysis of a panel of 117 countries, 1990–2013’, (2019) 158 International Labour Review 1-35
- Simon F Deakin, Christopher Markou, ‘The law-technology cycle and the future of work’, (2018) 158 Giornale di Diritto del Lavoro e di Relazioni Industriali 445-462
- Simon F Deakin, ‘The use of quantitative methods in labour law research: An assessment and reformulation’, (2018) 27 Social and Legal Studies 456-474
- Simon F Deakin, John Buchanan, Dominic H. Chai, ‘Unexpected corporate outcomes from hedge fund activism in Japan’, (2020) 18 Socio-Economic Review 31-52, 2018
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Tony Lawson’s theory of the corporation: Towards a social ontology of law’, (2017) 41 Cambridge Journal of Economics 1505-23
- Simon F Deakin, David Gindis, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Keinan Huang, Katharina Pistor, ‘Legal institutionalism: capitalism and the constitutive role of law’, (2017) 45 Journal of Comparative Economics 188-200
- Simon F Deakin, Zoe Adams, Parisa Bastani, Louise Bishop, ‘The CBR-LRI dataset: Methods, properties and potential of leximetric coding of labour laws’, (2017) 33 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 59-91
- Simon F Deakin, Ding Chen, Mathias Siems, Boya Wang, ‘Law, trust and institutional change in China: Evidence from qualitative fieldwork’, (2017) 17 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 257-90
- Simon F Deakin, Viviana Mollica, Prabirjit Sarkar, ‘Varieties of creditor protection: insolvency law reform and credit expansion in developed market economies’, (2017) 15 Socio-Economic Review 359-84, 2016
- Simon F Deakin, John Hamilton, ‘Russia’s legal transitions: Marxist theory, neoclassical economics and the rule of law’, (2015) 7 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 283-307
- Simon F Deakin, Sarah Fraser Butlin, Colm McLaughlin, Aleksandra Polanska, Sarah Fraser Butlin, Colm McLaughlin, Aleksandra Polanska, ‘Are litigation and collective bargaining complements or substitutes for achieving gender equality? A study of the British Equal Pay Act’, (2015) 39 Cambridge Journal of Economics 381-403
- Simon F Deakin, Ding Chen, ‘On Heaven’s lathe: state, rule of law, and economic development’, (2015) 8 Law and Development Review 123-45
- Simon F Deakin, Antara Haldar, ‘How should India reform its labour laws?’, (2015) 50(12) Economic and Political Weekly 48-55
- Simon F Deakin, Zoe Adams, Zoe Adams, ‘Institutional solutions to inequality and precariousness in labour markets’’, (2014) 52 British Journal of Industrial Relations 779-809
- Simon F Deakin, ‘The legal theory of finance: implications for methodology and empirical research’, Journal of Comparative Economics, 41: 338-442 (2013), 2014
- Simon F Deakin, Jonas Malmberg, Prabirjit Sarkar, Jonas Malmberg, Prabirjit Sarkar, ‘How do labour laws affect unemployment and the labour share of national income? The experience of six OECD countries, 1970–2010’, International Labour Review, 153: 1-27 (2014)
- Simon F Deakin, Aristea Koukiadaki, Aristea Koukiadaki, ‘Capability theory, employee voice, and corporate restructuring: evidence from UK case studies’, (2012) Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 33: 427-458
- Simon F Deakin, ‘The corporation as commons: rethinking property rights, governance and sustainability in the business enterprise’, (2012) Queen’s Law Journal, 37: 339-381
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Legal evolution: integrating economic and systemic approaches’, (2011) Review of Law and Economics, 7: 659–683
- Simon F Deakin, Frank Wilkinson, Frank Wilkinson, ‘Marchés du travail, crise financière et réforme: projet d’agenda pour une politique du travail’, L’homme et la societé, 2011/4, no. 182, 25-52
- Simon F Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Prabirjit Sarkar, ‘Indian labour law and its impact on unemployment, 1973-2006: a leximetric study’, (2011) Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 54: 607-629.
- Simon F Deakin, ‘What directors do (and fail to do): some comparative notes on board structure and corporate governance’, (2011) New York Law School Law Review, 55: 526-541
- Simon F Deakin, Nina Cankar, Marco Simoneti, Nina Cankar, Marco Simoneti, ‘The reflexive properties of corporate governance codes: the reception of the 'comply-or-explain' approach in Slovenia’, (2010) Journal of Law and Society, 37: 501-25
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Corporate governance, finance and growth: unravelling the relationship’, [2010] Acta Juridica: 191-218
- Simon F Deakin, Mathias Siems, Mathias Siems, ‘Comparative law and finance: past, present and future research’, (2010) Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 166: 120-140
- Simon F Deakin, Panicos Demetriades, Gregory James, Panicos Demetriades, Gregory James, ‘Creditor rights and banking system development in India’, (2010) Economics Letters, 108: 19-21
- Simon F Deakin, John Armour, Viviana Mollica, Mathias Siems, John Armour, Viviana Mollica, Mathias Siems, ‘Law and financial development: what we are learning from time series evidence’, (2009) Brigham Young University Law Review: 1435-1500
- Simon F Deakin, Aristea Koukiadaki, Aristea Koukiadaki, ‘Governance processes, labour-management partnership and employee voice in the construction of Heathrow Terminal 5’, (2009) Industrial Law Journal, 38: 365-389
- Simon F Deakin, John Randall, John Randall, ‘Rethinking the economic torts’, (2009) Modern Law Review, 72: 519-553
- Simon F Deakin, John Armour, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias Siems, Ajit Singh, John Armour, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias Siems, Ajit Singh, ‘Shareholder protection and stock market development: an empirical test of the legal origins hypothesis’, (2009) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 6: 343-380
- Simon F Deakin, John Armour, Priya Lele, Mathias Siems, John Armour, Priya Lele, Mathias Siems, ‘How do legal rules evolve? Evidence from a cross-national comparison of shareholder, creditor and worker protection’, (2009) American Journal of Comparative Law, 57: 579-630
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Reflexive harmonisation and European company law’’, (2009) European Law Journal, 15: 224-45
- Simon F Deakin, Ana Lourenco, Stephen Pratten, Ana Lourenco, Stephen Pratten, ‘No 'third way' for economic organization? Networks and quasi-markets in broadcasting’, (2009) Industrial and Corporate Change, 18: 51-75
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Legal origin, juridical form and industrialisation in historical perspective: the case of the employment relationship and the joint stock company’, (2009) Socio-Economic Review, 7: 35-65
- Simon F Deakin, Neil Conway, Suzanne Konzelmann, Heloise Petit, Antoine Reberioux, Neil Conway, Suzanne Konzelmann, Heloise Petit, Antoine Reberioux, ‘The influence of stock market listing on human resource management: evidence for France and Britain’, (2008) British Journal of Industrial Relations, 46: 631-673
- Simon F Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Prabirjit Sarkar, ‘Assessing the long-run economic impact of labour law systems: a theoretical reappraisal and analysis of new time series data’, (2008) Industrial Relations Journal, 39: 453-487
- Simon F Deakin, John Buchanan, John Buchanan, ‘Japan’s paradoxical response to the new 'global standard' in corporate governance’, (2008) Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht, 13: 59-84
- Simon F Deakin, ‘Regulatory competition after Laval’, (2008) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 10: 581-609
- Simon F Deakin, Beth Ahlering, Beth Ahlering, ‘Labour regulation, corporate governance and legal origin: a case of institutional complementarity?’, (2007) Law & Society Review, 41: 865-908
- Simon F Deakin, Priya Lele, Mathias Siems, Priya Lele, Mathias Siems, ‘The evolution of labour law: calibrating and comparing regulatory regimes’, (2007) International Labour Review, 146: 133-162
- Simon F Deakin, John Buchanan, ‘Has Japan's corporate governance reform reached a turning point? Some cautionary notes’, (2024) 30 Asia Pacific Business Review 433-50