Paul L. Davies
Paul Lynton Davies QC, FBA is the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford. From 1998 to 2009, Davies was the Cassell Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics. He is an expert in company law and labour law, having written numerous widely-cited articles and some of its most respected and successful texts, including Gower's Modern Company Law (2008).
Outside academic work Davies was a member of the Company Law Review Steering Group, whose reports eventually led to the Companies Act 2006; he is the general editor of the Industrial Law Journal and is Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee.
Davies holds degrees from the University of Oxford (BA Jurisprudence, 1966), the London School of Economics (LLM 1968) and Yale Law School (LLM 1969).
Publications
- The Anatomy of Corporate Law (with Reiner Kraakman, Henry Hansmann, Klaus Hopt, Gerard Hertig, Hideki Kanda) (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004)
- Gower and Davies’ Principles of Modern Company Law (Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2003) 8th Ed.
- Introduction to Company Law 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
- Labour Legislation and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993)
See also
External links
- Paul Davies' staff page at the Jesus College, Oxford.