Academic team
Cambridge University’s Law Faculty boasts a distinguished group of academics specialising in corporate law and related areas, meaning MCL students will have ample opportunity to interact directly with leading experts on corporate finance, corporate governance and corporate law.
Faculty biographies:
Brian Cheffins is the S J Berwin Professor of Corporate Law. His primary research interests are corporate governance and corporate law, with particular reference to economic and historical aspects. Professor Cheffins has held visiting appointments at Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2002.
Eilís Ferran is Professor of Company and Securities Law. Her primary research interests are in company law and capital markets regulation, with particular reference to EU financial market integration. She has been an adviser to British parliamentary committees and European regulatory bodies and has held visiting appointments in New Zealand and Hong Kong. She is a qualified solicitor and maintains links with the legal profession.
Jodie Kirshner is University Lecturer in Corporate Law. Her research concerns cross-border and comparative issues in corporate and insolvency law. Prior to coming to Cambridge she served as a federal judicial clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and practised as a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in New York. She has held research fellowships at Cambridge, Oxford, the London Business School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.
Richard Williams is the Hogan Lovells University Lecturer in Corporate Law. His primary research interests are in company law and insolvency law, with particular reference to law and economics analysis. He has published extensively on directors' disqualification and other aspects of corporate and insolvency law.
