John Edward Parkinson
Encyclopedia
John Edward Parkinson was Professor of Law at Bristol University and a key member of the Company Law Review Steering Group which worked towards the recent Companies Act 2006
. He died prematurely at age 48. He attended Prescot Grammar School and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford
.
before moving to Bristol to teach.
Parkinson rose to real prominence with the publication of his book, Corporate Power and Responsibility
: Issues in the Theory of Company Law (1993). This book was unique in British scholarship for addressing the theoretical debates and engaging in the economic arguments in company law from a progressive perspective. The message of the work was that company law needs to take account of the range of stakeholders, other than shareholder
s, who are affected by modern corporations. In 1994 he won the Society of Public Teachers of Law's book prize for outstanding legal scholarship by a younger scholar.
Articles
Companies Act 2006
The Companies Act 2006 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which forms the primary source of UK company law. It had the distinction of being the longest in British Parliamentary history: with 1,300 sections and covering nearly 700 pages, and containing 16 schedules but it has since...
. He died prematurely at age 48. He attended Prescot Grammar School and was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College , is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. As of 2006, it has an estimated financial endowment of £98m...
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Career
Parkinson worked briefly for city law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus DeringerFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading English law firms. It is the second-largest law firm in the world measured by revenues. In 2010-11 it achieved total revenues of £1.14 billion and profits...
before moving to Bristol to teach.
Parkinson rose to real prominence with the publication of his book, Corporate Power and Responsibility
Corporate Power and Responsibility
Corporate Power and Responsibility: Issues in the Theory of Company Law is a seminal book in UK company law by J.E. Parkinson. Its focus is corporate governance from a progressive perspective which charts the flaws and maps the reforms needed to match the responsibility modern corporations have to...
: Issues in the Theory of Company Law (1993). This book was unique in British scholarship for addressing the theoretical debates and engaging in the economic arguments in company law from a progressive perspective. The message of the work was that company law needs to take account of the range of stakeholders, other than shareholder
Shareholder
A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation. Shareholders own the stock, but not the corporation itself ....
s, who are affected by modern corporations. In 1994 he won the Society of Public Teachers of Law's book prize for outstanding legal scholarship by a younger scholar.
Publications
Books- Corporate Power and ResponsibilityCorporate Power and ResponsibilityCorporate Power and Responsibility: Issues in the Theory of Company Law is a seminal book in UK company law by J.E. Parkinson. Its focus is corporate governance from a progressive perspective which charts the flaws and maps the reforms needed to match the responsibility modern corporations have to...
: Issues in the Theory of Company Law (1993)
Articles
- JE Parkinson, 'Disclosure and Corporate Social and Environmental Performance: Competitiveness and Enterprise in a Broader Social Frame' (2003) 3 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 3
External links
- Parkinson's obituary from The Guardian