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Brian Cheffins

Adjunct Professor of Law
S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law, University of Cambridge (UK)

Brian Cheffins currently serves as S.J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law on the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom where he was the Chair of the Law Faculty from 2018-2019. Prior to joining the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge in 1998, he was on the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada from 1986-1997. Cheffins has held visiting faculty appointments at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain, University of Western Ontario, and Columbia Law School. In 2018, Cheffins was named as a Fellow of the British Academy.

Cheffins earned a LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and a LL.B. and B.A. from University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

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Representative Publications

  • “Stop Blaming Milton Friedman!”, 98 Washington University Law Review 1607-44 (2021).
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