Paul Lyndon Davies QC, FBA (born 24 September 1944) is

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Professor of Corporate Law Emeritus at the

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, Emeritus Fellow of

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and Emeritus Professor of Law at the

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, where he was the

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Professor of

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from 1998 to 2009. He is an honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn.

Career

Davies was a Fellow of

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and has held visiting positions at

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and the

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and a number of universities in

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. Davies is a founder member and Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. In 2000, Davies was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. He is an expert in company law and labour law, having written numerous widely cited articles and some of its most respected and successful texts, including ''Gower and Davies Principles of Modern Company Law'' (9th edition, 2012). Outside academic work Davies was a member of the Company Law Review Steering Group, whose reports eventually led to the

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; he is the general editor of the ''

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'' and is Deputy Chairman of the

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. He was elected an honorary

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in 2006 and an honorary Bencher of

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in 2007. Davies holds degrees from the

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(BA Jurisprudence, 1966), the

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(LLM 1968) and

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(LLM 1969). He is married to the

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ian-born lawyer Saphieh Ashtiany, formerly a partner in the

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Publications

;Books * ''The Anatomy of Corporate Law'' (2nd edn OUP 2009) (with

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, John Armour, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann,

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, Klaus Hopt,

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, and Edward Rock) * ''Towards a Flexible Labour Market'' (OUP 2007) (with Mark Freedland) * ''Gower and Davies’ Principles of Modern Company Law'' (9th edn Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2012) * ''Introduction to Company Law'' (Clarendon 2002 (1st ed) and 2010 (2nd ed)) * ''Labour Legislation and Public Policy'' (OUP 1993) ;Articles * 'The European Private Company (SPE): Uniformity, Flexibility, Competition and the Persistence of National Laws' (2010
EGCI Working Paper
* 'The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?' (2010
EGCI Working Paper
(with EP Schuster and E Van de Walle de Ghelcke) * 'Directors' Creditor-Regarding Duties in Respect of Trading Decisions Taken in the Vicinity of Insolvency' (2006
7 European Business Organization Law Review 1
* 'Enron and corporate law reform in the UK and the European Community' in J Lowry and L Mistelis, (eds) ''Commercial law: perspectives and practice'' (LexisNexis Butterworths 2006) * 'Workers on the Board of the European Company?' (2003
32(2) Industrial Law Journal 75
* 'The Notion of Equality in European Take-Over Regulation' (2002
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* 'Shareholder Value: Company Law and Securities Markets Law - A British View' (2000
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* 'Board Structure in the UK and Germany: Convergence or Continuing Divergence?' (2001
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* 'Labour Markets, Welfare, and the Personal Scope of Employment Law' (2000) 16(1) Oxford Review of Economic Policy 84-94 (with Mark Freedland) * 'The Board of Directors: Composition, Structure, Duties and Powers' (2000) Company Law Reform in OECD Countries
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* 'Employees, Workers and the Autonomy of Labour Law' (1999
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(with Mark Freedland) * 'A Note on Labour and Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom' in KJ Hopt et al. (eds), ''Comparative Corporate Governance'' (Clarendon 1998) * 'The Relationship Between the European Court of Justice and the British Courts over the Interpretation of Directive 77/187/EC' (1997) European University Institute * 'Institutional Investors in the United Kingdom', in T Baums, RM Buxbaum & KJ Hopt (eds) ''Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance'' (1994) 257 * 'Representation of Workers in the United Kingdom from Collective Laissez-Faire to Market Individualism' (1993–1994
15 Comparative Labor Law Journal 167
* 'Institutional Investors: A U.K. View' (1991) 57 Brooklyn Law Review 129 * 'The Bullock Report and Employee Participation in Corporate Planning in the UK' (1978
1 Journal of Comparative Corporate Law and Securities Regulation 245
* 'The Land of Industrial Democracy' (1977) 6 Industrial Law Journal 197 (with

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References

DAVIES, Prof. Paul Lyndon
''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014.

External links

Paul Davies'
staff page at Jesus College, Oxford.
Davies' author page
on

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Davies' biography
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Articles by Davies
on

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