Kershaw, David


Professor David Kershaw  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Professor of Law

Experience keywords:

accounting regulation; hedge funds; policy and regulatory bodies; takeover regulation; law; shareholders; corporate law

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My primary research areas are corporate law, takeover regulation and accounting regulation. Current research article projects include: (i) an analysis of the effect of nineteenth century conceptions of the corporation in the US and the UK on the path of fiduciary law and takeover regulation; (ii) an analysis of the function, role and regulation of transactional lawyers with particular regard to the role (and the responsibility) of lawyers in the collapse of Lehman Brothers; and (iii) an empirical project on German co-determination. Larger current projects include a monograph on Regulating Financial Reporting and a book on the Principles of Takeover Regulation.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Financial ServicesLawPolicy and Regulatory Bodies

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Germany; UK; Austria; Switzerland

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7327

Publications

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2013

Kershaw, David (2013) The rule in Foss v Harbottle is dead; long live the rule in Foss v Harbottle. LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 5/2013. Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Kershaw, David and Moorhead, Richard (2013) Consequential responsibility for client wrongs: Lehman Brothers and the regulation of the legal profession. Modern law review, 76 (1). pp. 26-61. ISSN 0026-7961

Kershaw, David and Moorhead, Richard (2013) Consequential responsibility for client wrongs: Lehman brothers and the regulation of the legal profession. The modern law review, 76 (1). pp. 26-61. ISSN 0026-7961

2012

Kershaw, David and Kirchmaier, Thomas and Schuster, Edmund (2012) The incentives of senior bank managers need to be altered in order to make them more risk averse. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Kershaw, David (2012) Company law in context: text and materials. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199609321

Kershaw, David (2012) The path of corporate fiduciary law. NYU journal of law and business, 8 pp. 395-485. ISSN 1558-5778

2011

Kershaw, David (2011) The path of fiduciary law. LSE law, society and economy working papers, 06-2011. The London School of Economics and Political Science , London, UK

Kershaw, David (2011) The decline of legal capital: an exploration of the consequences of board solvency based capital reductions. In: Prentice , Dan and Reisberg, Arad, (eds.) Corporate finance law in the UK and US. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 27-58. ISBN 9780199589616

Gerner-Beuerle, Carsten and Kershaw, David and Solinas, Matteo (2011) Is the board neutrality rule trivial? Amnesia about corporate law in European takeover regulation. European business law review, 22 (5). pp. 559-622. ISSN 0959-6941

Gerner-Beuerle, Carsten and Kershaw, David and Solinas, Matteo (2011) Is the board neutrality rule trivial?: amnesia about corporate law in European takeover regulation. LSE law, society and economy working papers, 3-2011. Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

2009

Kershaw, David (2009) Company law in context: text and materials. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199215942

Kershaw, David (2009) Involuntary creditors and the case for accounting-based distribution regulation. Journal of business law, (2). pp. 140-165. ISSN 0021-9460

2007

Kershaw, David (2007) Involuntary creditors and the case for accounting-based distribution regulation. LSE law, society and economy working papers, 16-2007. Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Kershaw, David (2007) Accounts and reports. In: Birds, John, (ed.) Annotated Companies Acts. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199211746

Kershaw, David (2007) Statutory auditors. In: Birds, John, (ed.) Annotated Companies Acts. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199211746

Kershaw, David (2007) The illusion of importance: reconsidering the UK's takeover defence prohibition. International & comparative law quarterly, 56 (2). pp. 267-307. ISSN 0020-5893

2006

Kershaw, David (2006) Waiting for Enron: the unstable equilibrium of auditor independence regulation. Journal of law and society, 33 (3). pp. 388-420. ISSN 0263-323X

2005

Kershaw, David (2005) Does it matter how the law thinks about corporate opportunities? Legal studies, 25 (4). pp. 533-558. ISSN 0261-3875

Kershaw, David (2005) Evading Enron: taking principles too seriously in accounting regulation. Modern law review, 68 (4). pp. 594-625. ISSN 0026-7961

Kershaw, David (2005) Lost in translation: corporate opportunities in comparative perspective. Oxford journal of legal studies, 25 (4). pp. 603-627. ISSN 0143-6503

2002

Kershaw, David (2002) No end in sight for the history of corporate law: the case of employee participation in corporate governance. Journal of corporate law studies, 2 (1). pp. 34-81. ISSN 1473-5970

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David Kershaw is a Professor of Law at LSE. He joined LSE in 2006. Prior to this he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick between 2003-2006. He is admitted to the New York Bar and is a qualified UK solicitor. Prior to his academic career, he 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. He holds a LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School and a LLB from the University of Warwick.

 

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