Hugh Collins

Hugh Collins, FBA (born 21 June 1953) is emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College.

[1][2] He retains the former title as emeritus after Timothy Endicott took up the professorship on 1 July 2020.

Collins was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (later teaching at Brasenose College) and Harvard Law School before joining the LSE in 1991.

The LSE Law Department was rated first in the Research Assessment Exercise of 2008 while under Professor Collins' leadership.

In 2009–10 he was based in New York as Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU.