Departmental homepageDr Friedman 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, he 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. Outside of academia, he has worked as 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.
Dr Friedman teaches constitutional law, administrative law and advanced public law, and supervises public law research.
His 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.
‘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 Mandate of Dignity: Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice (with Drucilla Cornell) (Fordham University Press, 2016).
