Professor Hugh Collins' Chorley Lecture on fat cats and the right to fair pay


29 October 2021

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Professor Hugh Collins delivered the annual Chorley Lecture on 20 October 2021, entitled ‘Fat Cats, Production Networks, and the Right to Fair Pay’.  The Chorley Lecture is an annual lecture inaugurated in 1972 and named in honour of Lord Chorley of Kendal, the founding editor of the Modern Law Review. A version of the lecture is subsequently published as the lead article in the January issue of the following year’s Review.

Listen to the lecture in full on youtube.

Hugh Collins FBA is the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics.   He studied law at the University of Oxford and Harvard Law School.  He was formerly Professor of English Law at LSE (1991-2013) and the Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College Oxford (2013-19).  He has published books in the fields of employment law, contract law, human rights, and legal theory.  His current research is concerned with the application of principles of justice to relations at work.