Professor Brian R Cheffins
B.A., LL.B. (Vict. B.C.), LL.M. (Cantab.);
S J Berwin Professor of Corporate Law
Trinity Hall
Interests
Company law. Corporate governance. Law and economics.
Personal Information
Nationality: Canadian
Born: 21 January 1961
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec
Education
1978 – 1981: University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (B.A., History)
1981 – 1982: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (First Year Law)
1982 – 1984: University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (LL.B.)
1985 – 1986: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (LL.M.)
Academic Career
1986 – 1997: Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(Assistant Professor 1986-1991; Associate Professor 1991-1997; Professor 1997)
1998 – present: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
(S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law, professorial fellow, Trinity Hall)
Visiting Appointments
1992 – 1993: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK
2000: Visiting Fellow, Duke Global Capital Markets Center/Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina, USA (Spring Term)
2002: Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (Fall Term)
2003: Visiting Lecturer/Visiting Fellow, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, USA (Spring Term)
2005: Visiting Lecturer, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid Spain (one week stint)
Prizes, Fellowships
1992 – 1993: Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Faculty Research Fellowship, University of British Columbia.
1998: Co-winner, Society of Public Teachers of Law Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (for Company Law: Theory, Structure and Operation).
1999: Award of the Fredrick I medal for contributions to Italian Academia, by the Department of Political Science, University of Naples, November 1999.
2002 – 2003: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (awarded to study “Foundations of the Anglo-American Corporate Economy”).
2005: Named as a European Corporate Governance Institute Fellow.
2005: Winner, with co-authors Steve Bank and Marc Goergen, of the De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize (awarded for “Dividends and Politics”, named as best law paper submitted to the European Corporate Governance Institute working paper series, 2002-04).
2007: “Outside Director Liability” (see Academic Publications/journals below) voted as one of the top 10 Corporate and Securities articles in a poll of teachers in corporate and securities law conducted by the Corporate Practice Commentator.
Professional Qualifications
1985 – present: Member of the Bar of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
