David Gindis
Associate Professor
University of Warwick School of Law
David Gindis is an associate professor at Warwick Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on institutional economics and law & economics, with particular emphasis on corporate governance, company law, business ethics, and the legal theory of the firm. His work also examines the corporate-personality debate, legal institutionalism, and the history of economic ideas.
At the University of Warwick, Gindis teaches company law, corporate governance, and the economic analysis of law. Before joining Warwick, he served as associate professor, senior lecturer, and lecturer in economics at the University of Hertfordshire, where he also taught microeconomics and political economy. He was also a research associate at the London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics at Birkbeck, University of London.
Earlier in his career, Gindis held academic appointments in Lyon, France, including lecturer and teaching-and-research fellow at INSA Lyon and teaching assistant in economics at Université Lumière Lyon 2.
He is the author and editor of several books, including the forthcoming “The Nexus and the Mask: A Legal Institutionalist Theory of the Firm” and the edited volume “Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons.”
He received the Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy and the History of Economic Analysis Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.
Gindis earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hertfordshire and a master’s in economics and a bachelor’s from Université Lumière Lyon 2.
