Brian Robert Cheffins, is a Canadian legal academic. He has been since 1998 S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

and a fellow of

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. Previously he was a professor at the

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Early life

He studied history at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...

, graduating with a B.A. in 1982. Cheffins went to law school at the University of Victoria, graduating with an LL.B. in 1984. He became a member of the Bar of British Columbia in 1985. Cheffins then studied at the

, graduating with an LL.M. in 1986.

Academic career

In 1986 Cheffins was appointed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and professor in 1997. Cheffins moved to the University of Cambridge in 1998 to become the S.J Berwin Professor of Corporate Law. That year he was elected as a fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Cheffins was a J.M. Keynes Fellow in financial economics from 2014 to 2018. He served as chair of University of Cambridge Law Faculty in 2018-19. Cheffins has held a number of

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appointments, including visiting professorships at Harvard Law School (2002) and

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

(2016) and the Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in US Business History at Harvard Business School (2014).

Honours

Cheffins was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. He was awarded a

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Major Research Fellowship in 2015 that was tenable from 2016 to 2018. In July 2018, Cheffins was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Major works

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References

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