British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Hugh Collins
Professor of English Law, London School of Economics

Year elected: 2006

He is among the very foremost British scholars of labour or employment law, with a well-developed national and international reputation. His Justice in Dismissal (1992) established him as the most important theorist of the British law of unfair dismissal; and in the field of contract and socio-legal studies, his Regulating Contracts is regarded as having made a particularly important contribution, of the kind that re-shapes the field.