Brian R. Cheffins

Brian R. Cheffins has been since 1998 the S. J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. 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 Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford and is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is the author of Company Law: Theory, Structure and Operation (Oxford, 1997; co-winner, Society of Public Teachers of Law Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship), The Trajectory of (Corporate Law) Scholarship (Cambridge, 2004), Corporate Ownership and Control: British Business Transformed (Oxford, 2008), and numerous articles on corporate law and corporate governance.