Deakin
Simon Deakin
British scholar of law, economics, corporate governance, and empirical legal studies
Official Source Note
Cambridge Judge Business School identifies Deakin as Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Business Research. His profile describes work in the economic and empirical analysis of law, corporate governance, labour law, private law, and legal-institutional change.
Deakin is included because his legal-institutionalist and empirical work provides a European counterpoint to approaches that treat law as external correction of otherwise complete markets.
Source: Cambridge Judge Business School
Relevance to the Archive
Deakin helps readers treat law as part of the institutional structure that constitutes economic relations, while also supplying comparative and empirical methods for testing claims about governance and regulatory change.
Representative Contributions
- System and Evolution in Corporate Governance (2011)
- Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy (with John Buchanan and Dominic Heesang Chai, 2012)
- Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law (with David Gindis, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Kainan Huang, and Katharina Pistor, 2017)