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Paul Davies is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Commercial Law Centre, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.
He was the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, from 2009-2014; Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1998-2009; and, before that, Professor of the Law of the Enterprise, University of Oxford.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000; appointed an honorary Queen’s Counsel in 2006 and elected an honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 2007.
His main interests are in labour law, corporate law and banking law. He is the editor (with Sarah Worthington) of Gower’s Principles of Modern Company Law; author (with numerous others) of The Anatomy of Corporate Law and (with a different set of others) of Principles of Financial Regulation; and (on his own) of Introduction to Company Law. He also contributes to Palmer’s Company Law. (A list of recent publications is available at www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/paul-davies-qc-hon)
He was a member of the Steering Group whose reports led to the Companies Act 2006 (UK). He carried out a review for the UK Treasury which led to a reform in 2010 of the law on the liability of issuers for inaccurate statements to the market.
He is a Fellow and Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ecgi.global) and is an active member of the European Company Law Experts Group (europeancompanylawexperts.wordpress.com).