University Associate Professor, Faculty of Law; Fellow and College Lecturer, St John's College
Interests
Nick’s research is concerned with the application of public law principles to corporate regulation. His work cuts across legal and moral philosophy, constitutional law, human rights, and corporate law. He teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Advanced Public Law (LLM) and supervises public law research.
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CV / Biography
Nick holds a BComm in economics, an LLB, and an LLM from the University of Cape Town, and a BCL, MPhil, and DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Before joining Cambridge, Nick was the Warburg Junior Research Fellow in Law at St Anne’s College, Oxford, a Visiting Researcher at the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, a Procter Fellow at Princeton University, and a law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Before joining the academy, he was a senior associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, where he represented clients in litigation and regulatory investigations concerning corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, competition law, and fraud.
Selected publications
Books
The Mandate of Dignity: Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice (with Drucilla Cornell) (Fordham University Press, 2016)
Articles
'A Revolutionary Scholar: Drucilla Cornell in South Africa' (2023) 3(2) Philosophy and Global Affairs 259-286
'Corporate Liability Design for Human Rights Abuses: Individual and Entity Liability for Due Diligence' (2021) 41(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 289
'Corporations as Moral Agents: Trade-Offs in Criminal Liability and Human Rights for Corporations' (2020) 83(2) Modern Law Review 255-284
'The South African Common Law and the Constitution: Revisiting Horizontality' (2014) 30 South African Journal on Human Rights 63-88
Book Chapters
"Corporate Liability Design for Environmental Harms: Reflections on Tort Liability" (with Ross Guinea-McIntyre) in Bose et al (ed(s)), The Cambridge Handbook of Law and Responsible Business: Legal Strategies for Sustainability in Global Value Chains), forthcoming
"In the Shadow of Parliamentary Sovereignty: The Human Rights Act and the Principle of Legality" in Matthias Klatt (ed(s)), Constitution-Conforming Interpretation – Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2023)
"Judicial Independence and Perceptions of Legitimacy" in Denis Galligan (ed(s)), Courts: Friend or Foe? (Hart Publishing, 2021)
"Equality" (with Kate O'Regan) in Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon (ed(s)), Research Handbook on Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)
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