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Professor Hugh Collins

Cassel Chair of Commercial Law

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Hugh Collins has published research in contract law, employment law, European law, legal theory, and human rights law. Book publications include Marxism and Law (OUP); The Law of Contract (4th edn, Butterworths, Law in Context, 2003); Justice in Dismissal (OUP); Regulating Contracts (OUP); A European Civil Code: The Way Forward (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Employment Law 2nd edn (OUP, 2010); Implicit Dimensions of Contracts (with D. Campbell and J. Wightman) (Hart Publishing, 2003); Networks as Connected Contracts (by Gunther Teubner) edited with an Introduction (Hart Publishing, 2011); and Labour Law (Cambridge University Press, Law in Context Series, 2nd edn 2019) with K.D. Ewing and Aileen McColgan; Foundations of Indirect Discrimination Law, ed with T Khaitan, (Hart Publishing, 2017); European Contract Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights (Intersentia, 2017) Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law ed with G Lester and V Mantouvalou, (OUP, 2018). He is currently Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, having previously been the Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College, Oxford 2014-2019, Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics 1991-2014, and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He studied law at Oxford and Harvard. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He served on the editorial committee of The Modern Law Review from 1991-2014, including a period as General Editor. He is co-founder of the European Review of Contract Law and has also served on the editorial committee of the Industrial Law Journal.

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