Paul Davies
KC (Hon), FBA
Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law; Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College
Biography
Paul Davies is a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, and a Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College. He was the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law from 2009 to 2014. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford (MA), London (LLM) and Yale (LLM). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000, an honorary Queen's Counsel in 2006 and an honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2007. He was a deputy chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee between 2001-2015. His first teaching job was as Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick (1969-1973). Then he was elected Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College Oxford and successively CUF Lecturer, Reader and Professor in the Faculty. Between 1998 and 2009 he was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Publications
Davies P, ‘Liability for Misstatements to the Market: Some Reflections’ (2022) 9 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 295
Davies P, ‘Related Party Transactions on the London Stock Exchange: What Works and What Does Not?’ (2022) 43 Business Law Review 2
Davies P, ‘The UK Stewardship Code 2010-2020 from Saving the Company to Saving the Planet?’ [2020] European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper
Davies P, Emmenegger S, Ferran E, and others, ‘The Commission’s 2018 Proposal on Cross-Border Mobility - An Assessment’ (2019) 16 European Company and Financial Law Review 196
Davies P, ‘The Fall and Rise of Debt: Bank Capital Regulation After the Crisis’ (2015) 16 European Business Organization Law Review
Böckli P, Davies P, Ferran E, and others, ‘Making Corporate Governance Codes More Effective: A Response to the European Commission’s Action Plan of December 2012’ [2013] Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
Davies P, ‘Liquidity Safety Nets for Banks’ (2013) 13 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 287
Davies P, ‘Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Bank of England Memorandum on Resolving Globally Active Systemically Important Financial Institutions’ (2013) 7 Law and Financial Markets Review 304
Davies P and Hopt K, ‘Corporate Boards in Europe—Accountability and Convergence’ (2013) 61 American Journal of Comparative Law 301
Davies P and J Hopt K, ‘Boards in Europe - Accountability and Convergence’ (2013) 61 American Journal of Comparative Law 301
Davies P, ‘Liability for Misstatements to the Market’ (2010) 5 Capital Markets Law Journal 443
Davies P, ‘Liability for Misstatements to the Market’ (2010) 5 Capital Markets Law Journal 443
Davies P and Freedland M, ‘Labour Markets, Welfare, and the Personal Scope of Employment Law’ (2000) 16 OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY 84
Davies P, Worthington S and Hare C, Gower Principles of Modern Company Law (Sweet & Maxwell 2021)
Davies P, Introduction to Company Law (OUP 2020)
Armour J, Kraakman R, Davies P, and others, The Anatomy of Corporate Law (Oxford University Press 2017)
Armour J, Awrey D, Davies P, and others, Principles of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press 2016)
Davies P and Worthington S, Gower and Davies Principles of Modern Company Law (Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell 2016)
Morse G, Davies P, Fletcher I, and others, Palmer’s Limited Liability Partnership Law (Sweet & Maxwell 2011)
Davies P, Introduction to Company Law 2nd ed (OUP, Clarendon Law Series 2010)
Davies P and Freedland M, Towards A Flexible Labour Market: Labour Legislation and Regulation since the 1990s (2009) 1
Davies P, ‘From Free Will to Duties of Vigilance: Corporate Liability for Wrongdoing’ in R J. Gilson, M Isaksson, E Lidman Johan Munck, and others (eds.), Festschrift in honour of Rolf Skog (Norstedts Juridik 2021)
Davies P, ‘Financial Stability and the Global Reach of EU Law’ in M Cremona Joanne Scott (ed.), EU Law Beyond EU Borders (OUP 2019)
Davies P and Hopt K, ‘Non-Shareholder Voice in Bank Governance: Board Composition, Performance and Liability’ in D Busch, G Ferrarini and G Van Solinge (eds.), Governance of Financial Institutions (Oxford University Press 2019)
Davies P, ‘Investment Chains and Corporate Governance’, INTERMEDIATION AND BEYOND (2019)
Davies P, ‘Related Party Transactions: UK Model’ (2019)
Davies P, ‘Control Shifts via Share Acquisition Contracts With Shareholders’ in J Gordon and W Ringe (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Corporate Law and Corporate Governance (OUP 2018)
Davies P, ‘Damages Actions by Investors on the Back of Market Disclosure Requirements’ in D Busch, E Avgouleas and G Ferrarini (eds.), Capital Markets Union in Europe (Oxford University Press 2018)
Davies P, ‘The Transactional Scope of Takeover Law in Comparative Perspective’ in U Varottil and W Yee Wan (eds.), Comparative Takeover Regulation (Cambridge U P 2017)
Davies P, ‘Efficiency Arguments for the Collective Representation of Workers’ in A Bogg, C Costello, A Davies, and others (eds.), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart Publishing 2015)
Davies P, ‘Resolution of Cross-Border Groups’, RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN THE BANKING SECTOR (2015)
Davies P, ‘Shareholders in the United Kingdom’, Research Handbook on Shareholder Power (2015)
Davies P, Hopt K, Nowak R, and others, ‘Boards in Law and Practice: A Cross-Country Analysis in Europe’ in P Davies, K Hopt, R Nowak, and others (eds.), Corporate Boards in Law and Practice (OUP 2013)
Davies P, ‘Corporate Boards in the United Kingdom’ in P Davies, K Hopt, R Nowak, and others (eds.), Corporate Boards in Law and Practice (2013)
Davies P, Schuster E and van de Walle de Ghelcke E, ‘The Takeover Directive As a Protectionist Tool?’ in U Bernitz and W Ringe (eds.), Company Law and Economic Protectionism - New Challenges to Economic Integration (OUP 2010)
Bockli P, Davies P, Ferran E, and others, ‘Response to the European Commission’s Report on the Application of the Takeover Bids Directive’ (1 December 2013)
Boeckli P, Davies P, Ferran E, and others, ‘The Future of European Company Law’ (ECLE, 4 June 2012)
Davies P, Ferrarini G, Hopt K, and others, ‘Response to the European Commission’s Green Paper: The EU Corporate Governance Framework’ (1 January 2011)
Davies P, ‘The European Private Company (SPE): Uniformity, Flexibility, Competition and the Persistence of National Laws’ (ECGI Working Paper 154/2010, 1 May 2010)