Director
Research
Empirical legal studies; labour law; law and finance; corporate governance; private law.
Projects
Addressing Gender Inequality through Corporate Governance
'Capright': Resources, Rights & Capabilities in Europe
Corporate Law & Economic Performance
GCRF Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC-MENA)
Law, Development & Finance in Rising Powers
Pension Fund Governance & Socially Responsible Investment
Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest
Reflexive Law & Democratic Governance
Social Dialogue, Employment & Territories: Towards a European Politics of Capabilities
The Implementation of the Working Time Directive in the UK
Updating Employment Institutions & Governance
The Internet of Things: Shaping Our Futures
Labour Law & Poverty Alleviation in Low- & Middle-Income Countries
Law, Development & Finance in Rising Powers
Maximising Innovation beyond Procurement & Contract Execution
Personal background
Simon Deakin is Director of the CBR and Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge. He specialises in the economics of law and empirical legal studies, with particular reference to labour law, private law, and corporate governance. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has received the ECGI and Allen & Overy prizes for his research on corporate governance. He has carried out consultancy and contract research for numerous governments, international organisations, companies, business associations, trade unions and NGOs.
Selected publications
Adams, Z., and Deakin, S. (2015) ‘Quantitative labour law’, in A. Ludlow and A. Blackham (eds.) New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research (Oxford: Hart)
Deakin, S., and Hamilton, J. (2015) ‘Russia’s legal transitions: Marxist theory, neoclassical economics, and the rule of law’ Hague Journal of the Rule of Law, 7: 283-307
Deakin, S., Fraser-Butlin, S., Polanska, A. and McLaughlin, C. (2015) ‘Are litigation and collective bargaining complements or substitutes for achieving gender equality? A study of the British Equal Pay Act’ Cambridge Journal of Economics, 39: 381-403
Chen, D., and Deakin, S. (2014) ‘On heaven’s lathe: state, rule of law, and economic development’ Law and Development Review, 8: 123-45
Deakin, S., Malmberg, J. and Sarkar, P. (2014) ‘How do labour laws affect unemployment and the labour share of national income? The experience of six OECD countries, 1970–2010’ International Labour Review, 153: 1-27.
Buchanan, J., Chai, D.-H. and Deakin, S. (2014) ‘Empirical analysis of legal institutions and institutional change: multiple-methods approaches and their application to corporate governance research’ Journal of Institutional Economics, 10: 1-20