Professor David Kershaw

David is Professor of Law at LSE Law School and was formerly Dean of the Law School between 2021 and 2025. He is also a member of the LSE Council, the Governing Body of LSE, and an Associate Tenant at Cornerstone Barristers. He is a former General Editor of the Modern Law Review.

He joined the LSE in 2006. Prior to joining the LSE he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick between 2003-2006. He is admitted to the New York Bar and is a qualified UK solicitor. Prior to his academic career, he qualified as a Solicitor at Herbert Smith, London and practised corporate law in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Shearman & Sterling in New York and London. He holds a LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School and a LLB from the University of Warwick.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

My primary research areas are UK and US corporate law, takeover regulation and accounting regulation. Current projects include an empirical project on the effects of managerial insulation on firm performance and characteristics, several projects on the evolution of Delaware corporate law, and projects exploring the legal ecology of the purposeful company and the corporate governance choices made by private equity firms when they IPO their portfolio companies.

LL203 Company Law

LL4CF UK Corporate Law

LL4F4 Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US

Summer School: Introduction to Corporate Law and Governance

David is a Senior Researcher with LSE’s Financial Markets Group and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. David is a member of the Editorial Board of the Modern Law Review and a former General Editor of the Review. He is an Associate Member of Cornerstone Chambers and a member of LSE’s Council (it’s governing body) and a member of the Managerial Board of the Marshall Institute. He has advised the Big Innovation Society on the company law aspects of its Purposeful Company Project, and together with Professor Julia Black, David has given evidence before the Parliamentary Committee on Banking Standards. Our written submission to the commission is available here and a webcast of the session can be viewed here.