Professor of Criminal and Private International Law
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, LL.M, MA, LL.B (Hons)
Alan Reed graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University with a first class honours degree in law, and was awarded the Herbert Smith Prize for Conflict of Laws and the Dr. Lancey Prize. He received a full Holland Scholarship from Cambridge University to facilitate study in the U.S. and obtained an LLM (Comparative Law) from the University of Virginia.
He qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, and worked in London at the law firm of Theodore Goddard, whilst also acting as a Tutor in Criminal Law at Trinity College. He spent a number of years as a lecturer in law at Leeds University, before his appointment as Reader in Law then Professor of Criminal and Private International Law at Sunderland.
He has contributed over 200 law publications in monographs, books and articles throughout England and the U.S. within the spheres of doctrinal criminal law and Anglo-American Private International Law. His work on tort jurisdiction principles was cited with approval by Lord Steyn in the House of Lords, and an article on forum non conveniens was cited with approval by the District Court of Louisiana.