Hugh Collins
Emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law
Biography
Hugh Collins became the Vinerian Professor of English Law in 2013. He obtained his BA (1974) and BCL (1975) from Pembroke College, Oxford, and an LLM (1976) from Harvard Law School. He was a Fellow in law at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1976 to 1990, when he became the Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics, where he was also head of the department of law for two terms of office. He has been a Visiting Professor at New York University Law School and Boston University Law School. He served as a member of the editorial committee of The Modern Law Review from 1991-2015, including a term as General Editor, and as a founder and editor of the European Review of Contract Law. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006.
Publications
Collins H, Lester G and Mantouvalou V, ‘Does Labour Law Need Philosophical Foundations? (Introduction)’
Collins H, ‘Implied Terms: The Foundation in Good Faith and Fair Dealing’ (2014) 67(1) CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS 297
Collins H, ‘Conformity of Goods, the Network Society, and the Ethical Consumer’ [2014] (22(5) European Review of Private Law 619
Collins H, ‘Seduction by Contract: Law, Economics, and Psychology in Consumer Markets’ (2014) 77(6) MODERN LAW REVIEW 1030
Collins H and Mantouvalou V, ‘<i><scp>R</scp>edfearn</i> v <i><scp>UK</scp></i>: Political Association and Dismissal’ (2013) 76(5) The Modern Law Review 909
Mantouvalou V and Collins H, ‘Redfearn v. UK: Political Association and Dismissal’
Collins H, ‘Entretiens sur le droit du licenciement pour motif économique: Royaume Uni’ (2013) 6 Revue De Droit Du Travail 430
Collins H, ‘Why Europe Needs a Civil Code’ (2013) 21(4) European Review of Private Law 907
COLLINS H, ‘Compensation for Dismissal: In Search &#x2028;of Principle’ (2012) 41(2) Industrial Law Journal 208
Collins H, ‘The Vanishing Freedom to Choose a Contractual Partner’ (2012) 76(2) Law and Contemporary Problems 71
Collins H, ‘Cosmopolitanism and Transnational Private Law’ (2012) 8 European Review of Contract Law 311
Collins H, ‘The Impact of Human Rights Law on Contract Law in Europe’
Collins H, ‘Harmonisation by Example: European Laws against Unfair Commercial Practices’ (2010) 73(1) The Modern Law Review 89
Collins H, ‘The European Economic Constitution and the Constitutional Dimension of Private Law’ (2009) 5(2) ERCL 71
Collins H and Mantouvalou V, ‘Private Life and Dismissal: Pay v UK’ (2009) 38 Industrial Law Journal 133
Collins H, ‘Lord Hoffmann and the Common Law of Contract’ (2009) 5(4) European Review of Contract Law
Collins H, ‘Does \’Fragmented Europeanisation\’ Require a European Civil Code?’ (2009) 44654 Tidskrift Utgiven Av Juridiska FöReningen 213
Collins H, ‘Utility and Rights in Common Law Reasoning: Rebalancing Private Law Through Constitutionalization’ [2007] (6) LSE Legal Studies Working Paper
Collins H, ‘Legal Responses to the Standard Form Contract of Employment’ (2007) 36(1) Industrial Law Journal 2
Collins H, ‘Les contrats de travail types en Angleterre’ (2007) 5 Revue De Droit Du Travail 342
Collins H, ‘Mistake, Fraud and Duties to Inform in European Contract Law’ (2006) 69(2) Modern Law Review 278
Collins H, ‘The Alchemy of Deriving General Principles of Contract Law from European Legislation: In Search of the Philosopher’s Stone’ (2006) 2(2) European Review of Contract Law
Collins H, ‘Flexibility and Stability of Expectations in the Contract of Employment’ (2006) 4(1) Socio-Economic Review 139
Collins H, ‘The Protection of Civil Liberties in the Workplace’ (2006) 69(4) Modern Law Review 619
Collins H, ‘Harmonisation of European Contract Law: Citizenship, Diversity and Effectiveness’ [2006] (7) Cambridge Yearbook of European Law 80
Collins H, ‘European Social Policy and Contract Law’ (2005) 1(1) European Review of Contract Law
Collins H, ‘Flexibility and Stability of Expectations in the Contract of Employment’ [2005] Socio-Economic Review 42005
Collins H, ‘Social Inclusion: A Better Approach to Equality Issues?’ (2005) 14 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 101
Collins H, ‘The Unfair Commercial Practices Directives’ [2005] (1) European Review of Contract Law 417
Collins H, ‘European Social Policy and Contract Law’ (2005) 1 European Review of Contract Law 115
Collins H, ‘The Freedom to Circulate Documents: Regulating Contracts in Europe’ (2004) 10(6) European Law Journal 787
Collins H, ‘Editorial: The Future of European Private Law: An Introduction’ (2004) 10 European Law Journal 649
Brueggemeier G and others, ‘Social Justice in European Contract Law: A Manifesto’ (2004) 10(6) European Law Journal 653
Collins H, ‘Editorial: The Future of European Private Law’ (2004) 10 European Law Journal 649
Collins H and the Social Justice Group W, ‘Social Justice in European Contract Law: A Manifesto (rapporteur with the Social Justice Group)’ (2004) 10 European Law Journal 653
Collins H, ‘La Guistizia Contrattuale in Europa (Regulating Contracts for Fairness in Europe),’ (2003) 20(44652) Rivista Critica Del Diritto Privato 659
Collins H, ‘Discrimination, Equality, and Social Inclusion’ [2003] Modern Law Review 16
Collins H, ‘Regulating Employment for Competitiveness’ (2001) 30 Industrial Law Journal 17
Collins H, ‘Formalism and Efficiency: Designing European Commercial Contract Law’ (2000) 8(1) European Review of Private Law 211
Collins H, ‘Transnational Private Law Regulation of Markets’ (1998) 4 Europa E Diritto Privato 967
Collins H, ‘The Productive Disintegration of Labour Law’ (1997) 26(4) Industrial Law Journal 295
Collins H, ‘The Voice of the Community in Private Law Discourse’ (1997) 3 European Law Journal 407
Collins H, ‘Productive Learning from the Collision between the Doctrinal Subsystems of Contract and Tort’ [1997] Acta Juridica 55
Collins H, ‘European Private Law and the Cultural Identity of States’ (1995) 3(2) European Review of Private Law 181
Collins H, ‘Legal Regulation of Dependent Entrepreneurs’ (1995) 152 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 263
Collins H, ‘Good Faith in European Contract Law’ [1994] Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 229
Collins H, ‘Why are there Contracts of Employment?’ (1993) 149(4) Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 762
Collins H, ‘Distributive Justice Through Contracts’ (1992) 45(2) Current Legal Problems 49
Collins H, ‘Social Market and the Law of Contract’ (1992) 49 Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy 85
COLLINS H, ‘The Meaning of Job Security’ (1991) 20(4) Industrial Law Journal 227
Collins H, ‘Methods and Aims of Comparative Contract Law’ (1991) 11 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 396
Collins H, ‘Ascription of Legal Responsibility to Groups in Complex Patterns of Economic Integration’ (1990) 53(6) Modern Law Review 731
Collins H, ‘Liberty and Equality in the Workplace’ [1990] Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy 148
Collins H, ‘Independent Contractors and the Challenge of Vertical Disintegration to Employment Protection Laws’ (1990) 10 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 353
COLLINS H, ‘THE POLITICS OF JURISPRUDENCE - COTTERRELL,R’ (1990) 18(4) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 508
Collins H, ‘Transfer of Undertakings and Insolvency’ (1989) 18(3) Industrial Law Journal 144
Collins H, ‘Labour Law as a Vocation’ (1989) 105(3) Law Quarterly Review 468
COLLINS H, ‘THE DECLINE OF PRIVACY IN PRIVATE LAW’ (1987) 14(1) JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY 91
COLLINS H, ‘UNGER,ROBERTO AND THE CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES MOVEMENT’ (1987) 14(4) JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY 387
Collins H, ‘The Concept of Fairness in the Law of Unfair Dismissal’ (1987) 34 Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy 96
Collins H, ‘Against Abstentionism in Labour Law’ [1987] Oxford University Press 201
COLLINS H, ‘A SOCIOLOGICAL-THEORY OF LAW - LUHMANN,N’ (1987) 10(3) CONTEMPORARY CRISES 347
Collins H, ‘Market Power, Bureaucratic Power, and the Contract of Employment’ (1986) 15(1) Industrial Law Journal 1
Collins H, ‘Dismissals on Transfer of a Business’ (1986) 15(1) Industrial Law Journal 244
Collins H, ‘Market Power, Bureaucratic Power and the Contract of Employment’ (1986) 15 Industrial Law Journal 41640
COLLINS H, ‘LAW, ORDER AND POWER, 2ND EDITION - CHAMBLISS,W, SEIDMAN,R’ (1983) 11(3) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 328
Collins H, ‘Capitalist Discipline and Corporatist Law, Part 1’ [1982] (11) Industrial Law Journal 78
Collins H, ‘Capitalist Discipline and Corporatist Law, Part 2’ [1982] (11) Industrial Law Journal 170
COLLINS H, ‘Private Law, Fundamental Rights, and the Rule of Law’ 121 West Virginia Law Review
Collins H and others, Preface: Society of European contract law (SECOLA) (2013)
Collins H, Ewing K and McColgan A, Labour Law (Cambridge University Press 2012)
Collins H, Labour Law: Law in Context Series (Cambridge University Press 2012)
Collins H, Employment Law (Oxford University Press, USA 2010)
Collins H, The European Civil Code (Cambridge University Press 2008)
Collins H, The European Civil Code: The Way Forward (Cambridge University Press 2008)
Collins H, Ewing K and McColgan A, Labour Law (Hart Pub Limited 2005)
Collins H, Labour Law:Text and Materials (Hart Publishing 2005)
Collins H, Nine Proposals for the Reform of the Law on Unfair Dismissal (2004)
Campbell D, Collins H and Wightman J, Implicit Dimensions of Contract (Hart Publishing 2003)
Collins H, The Law of Contract (Cambridge University Press 2003)
Collins H, Regulating Contracts (2002)
Collins H, Justice in Dismissal (Oxford University Press 1992)
Collins H, Justice in Dismissal: The Law of Termination of Employment (Oxford University Press 1992)
Collins H, Marxism and Law (Oxford University Press 1982)
Collins H, Networks as Connected Contracts
Collins H, Legal Regulation of the Employment Relation
Collins H, Lester G and Mantouvalou V, ‘Introduction: Does Labour Law Need Philosophical Foundations?’, Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (Oxford University Press 2018)
COLLINS H, ‘Justice for Foxes: Fundamental Rights and Justification of Indirect Discrimination’ in H COLLINS and T KHAITAN (eds.), Foundations of Indirect Discrimination Law (Hart Publishing 2018)
COLLINS H, Lester G and Mantouvalou V, ‘Is the Contract of Employment Illiberal?’, Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (Oxford Scholarship Online 2018)
Collins H and Khaitan T, ‘Indirect Discrimination Law: Controversies and Critical Questions’, Foundations of Indirect Discrimination Law (Hart Publishing 2018)
Collins H, ‘The Revolutionary Trajectory of EU Contract Law towards Post-national law’ in RRGV Worthington (ed.), Revolution and Evolution in Private Law (Hart Publishing 2018)
Collins H, ‘Discrimination and the Private Sphere’ in K Lippert-Rasmussen (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (Routledge 2018)
Collins H, ‘Building European Contract Law on Charter Rights’ in H Collins (ed.), European Contract Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights (Intersentia 2017)
Collins H, ‘The Challenges Presented by Fundamental Rights to Private Law’ in K Barker, K Fairweather and R Grantham (eds.), Private Law in the 21st Century (Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury 2017)
Collins H, ‘Is a Relational Contract a Legal Concept?’ in S Degeling, J Edelman and J Goudkamp (eds.), Contract in Commercial Law (Lawbook Co, Thomson Reuters 2016)
Bogg A and Collins H, ‘Lord Hoffmann and the Law of Employment: The Notorious Episode of Johnson v Unisys Ltd’ in P S Davies and J Pila (eds.), The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann (Hart Publishing 2015)
Collins H, ‘Contractual Autonomy’ in A Bogg and others (eds.), The Autonomy of Labour Law (Hart Publishing 2015)
Collins H, ‘Progress towards the Right to Work in the United Kingdom’ in V Matouvalou (ed.), The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Hart Publishing 2015)
Collins H, ‘Flipping Wreck: Lex Mercatoria on the Shoals of Ius Cogens’ in S Grundmann, F Moeslein and K Riesenhuber (eds.), Contract Governance - Dimensions in Law and Interdisciplinary Research (Oxford University Press 2015)
Collins H, ‘Is there a Human Right to Work?’ in V Mantouvalou (ed.), The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Hart Publishing 2015)
Collins H, ‘The (In)compatibility of Human Rights and Private Law’ in H Micklitz (ed.), Constitutionalization of European Private Law (Oxford University Press 2014)
Collins H, ‘The Contract of Employment in 3D’ in D Campbell, L Mulcahy and S Wheeler (eds.), Changing Concepts of Contract (Palgrave Macmillan 2013)
Collins H, ‘The Contract of Employment in 3D’ in D Campbell, L Mulcahy and S Wheeler (eds.), Changing Concepts of Contract (Palgrave Macmillan 2013)
Collins H, ‘Social Dumping, Multi-level Governance and Private Law in Employment Relationships’ in D Leczykiewicz and S Weatherill (eds.), Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships (Hart Pub Limited 2013)
Collins H, ‘Private Production of Transnational Law through Standard Form Contracts’ in H Eidenmüller (ed.), Regulatory Competition in Contract Law and Dispute Resolution (Hart Pub Limited 2013)
Collins H, ‘Theories of Rights as Justifications for Labour Law’ in G Davidov and B Langille (eds.), The Idea of Labour Law (Oxford University Press 2011)
Collins H, ‘The Hybrid Quality of European Private Law’ in R Brownsword, H-W Micklitz and L Niglia (eds.), The Foundations of European Private Law (Hart Publishing 2011)
Collins H, ‘The Impossible Necessity of European Labour Law’ in S Muller and others (eds.), The Law of the Future and the Future of Law (Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher 2011)
Collins H, ‘Beyond the Third Way in Labour Law: Towards the Constitutionalization of Labour Law?’ in M Kaino, M Ishida and T Uemura (eds.), Comparative Law for Creative Law: Challenges for Immediate Actions (2010)
Collins H, ‘The Weakest Link: Legal Implications of the Network Architecture of Supply Chains’ in M Amstutz and G Teubner (eds.), Networks: Legal Issues of Multilateral Co-operation (Hart Pub Limited 2009)
Collins H, ‘Networks and Comparative Sociological Jurisprudence’ in G-P Calliess (ed.), Soziologische Jurisprudenz (Walter de Gruyter 2009)
Collins H, ‘The Directive on Unfair Contract Terms: Implementation, Effectiveness and Harmonization’ in H Collins (ed.), Standard Contract Terms in Europe (Kluwer Law International 2008)
Collins H, ‘Governance Implications for the European Union of the Changing Character of Private Law’ in F Cafaggi and HM Watt (eds.), Making European Private Law (Edward Elgar Pub 2008)
Collins H, ‘The Directive on Unfair Contract Terms: Implementation, Effectiveness and Harmonization’ in H Collins (ed.), Standard Contract Terms in Europe: A Basis for and a Challenge to European Contract Law (Kluwer Law International 2008)
Collins H, ‘Why Europe Needs a Civil Code: European Identity and the Social Model’ in MT Andenæs (ed.), Liber Amicorum Guido Alpa (British Inst of International & Comparative 2007)
Collins H, ‘Social Rights General Clauses and the Acquis communitaire’ in S Grundmann and D Mazeaud (eds.), General Clauses and Standards in European Contract Law (Kluwer Law International 2006)
Collins H, ‘A Worker’s Civil Code? Principles of European Contract Law Evolving in EU Social and Economic Policy’ in MW Hesselink (ed.), The Politics of a European Civil Code (Kluwer Law International 2006)
Collins H, ‘Multi-segmented Workforces, Comparative Fairness, and the Capital Boundary Obstacle’ in G Davidov and B Langille (eds.), Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law (Hart Publishing 2006)
Collins H, ‘The Right to Flexibility’, Labour Law, Work and Family: Critical and Comparative Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2005)
Collins H, ‘Regulating Contract Law’ in C Parker (ed.), Regulating Law (Oxford University Press on Demand 2004)
Collins H, ‘EC Regulation of Unfair Commercial Practices’ in H Collins (ed.), The Forthcoming EC Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices (Kluwer Law International 2004)
Collins H, ‘EC Regulation of Unfair Commercial Practices’ in H Collins (ed.), The Forthcoming EC Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices: Contract, Consumer and Competition Law Implications (Kluwer Law International 2004)
Collins H, ‘Objectivity and Committed Contextualism in Interpretation’ in S Worthington (ed.), Commercial Law and Commercial Practice (Hart Publishing 2003)
Collins H, ‘Introduction: The Research Agenda of Implicit Dimensions of Contracts’ in D Campbell, H Collins and J Wightman (eds.), Implicit Dimensions of Contract (Hart Publishing 2003)
Collins H, ‘Discovering the Implicit Dimensions of Contracts’ in D Campbell, H Collins and J Wightman (eds.), Implicit Dimensions of Contract (Hart Publishing 2003)
Collins H, ‘Discretionary Powers in Contracts’ in D Campbell, H Collins and J Wightman (eds.), Implicit Dimensions of Contract (Hart Publishing 2003)
Collins H, ‘Introduction: The Research Agenda of Implicit Dimensions of Contracts’ in D Campbell, H Collins and J Wightman (eds.), Implicit Dimension of Contract: Discrete, Relational, and Network Contracts (Hart Publishing 2003)
Collins H, ‘Transaction Costs and Subsidiarity in European Contract Law’ in S Grundmann (ed.), An academic green paper on European contract law (Kluwer Law Intl 2002)
Collins H, ‘Law as Politics’ in Penner, Schiff and Nobles (eds.), Jurisprudence: text and materials (Butterworths 2002)
Collins H, ‘Justifying European Employment Law’ in S Grundmann, W Kerber and S Weatherill (eds.), Party Autonomy and the Role of Information in the Internal Market (Walter de Gruyter 2001)
Collins H, ‘Closure and Openness - Reasoning in the Law of Contract and the Social Construction of Markets’ in Tanese (ed.), Principles of Contract and Practice of Contracts (1999)
Collins H and Scott C, ‘Legal Problems in Private Law in Quality Assurance Contracts: United Kingdom Report’ in G Bruggermeier (ed.), Rechtprobleme von Qualitatsmanagementvereinbarungen und EG-Binnenmarkt (Baden Baden: Nomos 1998)
Collins H, ‘The Sanctimony of Contracts’ in R Rawlings and LSOEAP Science (eds.), Law, Society, and Economy (Oxford University Press on Demand 1997)
Collins H, ‘Legal Classifications as the Production of Knowledge Systems’ in P Birks (ed.), The Classification of Obligations (Courier Corporation 1997)
Collins H, ‘Quality Assurance in Subcontracting’ in SF Deakin and J Michie (eds.), Contracts, Co-operation, and Competition (Oxford University Press 1997)
Collins H, ‘Competing Norms of Contractual Behaviour’ in D Campbell and P Vincent-Jones (eds.), Contract and Economic Organisation (Dartmouth Publishing Company 1996)
Collins H, ‘Job Security and Unfair Dismissal’ in KD Ewing (ed.), Working Life: A New Perspective on Labour Law (1996)
Collins H, ‘Fairness in Agreed Remedies’ in C Willett (ed.), Aspects of Fairness in Contract (Blackstone Press 1996)
Collins H, ‘Disclosure of Information and Welfarism’ in R Brownsword, GG Howells and T Wilhelmsson (eds.), Welfarism in contract law (Dartmouth Pub Co 1994)
Collins H, ‘The Place of Computers in Legal Education’ in P Birks (ed.), Reviewing Legal Education (Oxford University Press, USA 1994)
Collins H, ‘Organizational Regulation and the Limits of Contract’ in J McCahery (ed.), Corporate Control and Accountability (Oxford University Press 1993)
Collins H, ‘The Transformation Thesis and the Ascription of Contractual Responsibility’ in T Wilhelmsson (ed.), Perspectives of Critical Contract Law (Dartmouth Publishing Group 1993)
Collins H, ‘A Reconception of Labour Law’ in P Birks (ed.), Examining the Law Syllabus (Oxford University Press, USA 1993)
Collins H, ‘Contract and Legal Theory’ in W Twining (ed.), Legal Theory and Common Law (Blackwell 1986)
Collins H, ‘Democracy and Adjudication’ in PBH Birks and N MacCormick (eds.), The Legal Mind (Oxford University Press 1986)
Collins H, ‘The Constitutionalization of European Private Law as a Path to Social Justice?’, The Many Concepts of Social Justice in European Private Law
Collins H, ‘Does Social Justice Require the Preservation of Diversity in the Private Laws of Member States of Europe?’, Private Law and the Many Cultures of Europe
Collins H, ‘Aims of Teaching the Law of Contract’, Examining the Law Syllabus: The Core
Collins H, ‘Flexibility and Empowerment’, Advancing Theory in Labour Law and Industrial Relations in a ...
Collins H, ‘Is There a Third Way in Labour Law?’, Labour Law in an Era of Globalization: Transformative ...
Collins H, ‘The ‘Common Frame of Reference’ for EC Contract Law: A Common Lawyer’s Perspective’, L’Armonizzazione del Diritto Privato Europeo: Il Piano D’Azione
Collins H, ‘Market Integration, Social Justice, and Autonomous Agreements: Regulating Transactions in Europe’, A European Civil Code?: Perspectives and Problems
Collins H, Lester G and Mantouvalou V, Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (Oxford University Press 2018)
Collins H, European Contract Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights (Intersentia 2017) 290pp
Collins H, Standard Contract Terms in Europe: A basis for and a Challenge to European Contract Law (Kluwer Law International 2008)
Collins H, Implementation of the EU Directive on Unfair Contract terms (Contemporary Issues in Law 2007)
Collins H, The Forthcoming EU Directive on Unfair Commercial Practises: Contracts,Consumers and Competition Law (Kluwer Law International 2004)
Collins H, ‘Conformity of Goods, the Network Society, and the Ethical Consumer’, IMAGES OF THE CONSUMER IN EU LAW: LEGISLATION, FREE MOVEMENT AND COMPETITION LAW (2016)
Collins H, ‘The order of the garter, 1348-1461: Chivalry and politics in later medieval England’, COURTS, COUNTIES AND THE CAPITAL IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES (1996)