David Kershaw

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David Kershaw is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the current Dean of LSE Law School. [1] His research is focused on company law. As well as the author of a leading company law textbook, Kershaw's expertise focuses on accounting principles for companies, for which his work on post-Enron regulation received the Modern Law Review Wedderburn Prize, [2] directors' duties, takeovers and workplace participation.

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Kershaw qualified as a Solicitor at Herbert Smith, London and practised corporate law in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Shearman & Sterling in New York and London. [3] After having completed his doctorate at Harvard Law School, Kershaw took up a lectureship at the University of Warwick Law Department in 2003. In 2006, he joined the Law Department of the LSE, where he was appointed full professor in 2010. He holds LLM and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School and an LLB from the University of Warwick.

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  1. ↑ , London School of Economics. Accessed 20 September 2023
  2. ↑ The Wedderburn Prize Archived 7 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine , Modern Law Review. Accessed 10 August 2011
  3. ↑ LSE Staff Webpage, London School of Economics. Accessed 24 March 2014
  4. ↑ Ferreira, Daniel; Kershaw, David; Kirchmaier, Tom; Schuster, Edmund (2021). "Management insulation and bank failures" (PDF). Journal of Financial Intermediation. 47 100909. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.jfi.2021.100909. ISSN   1042-9573. S2CID   235506021.
  5. ↑ Kershaw, David; Schuster, Edmund (15 December 2021). "The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law" (PDF). The American Journal of Comparative Law. 69 (3): 478–538. doi: 10.1093/ajcl/avac004 . ISSN   0002-919X.
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