Alastair Mullis is a British legal scholar who is Professor of Law and Head of the Law School at the University of Leeds.[1]
Alastair Mullis | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Professor |
| Alma mater | King's College London Downing College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Lecturing |
| Organization | University of Leeds |
Biography
editHe taught at King's College London from 1989 to 1999, where in 1996 he was appointed senior lecturer. He joined the University of East Anglia in 1999 and became dean in September 2001 and professor in 2005. Alastair Mullis has also held visiting appointments in the United States (he was a visiting professor at the University of Detroit from 1993 to 1995 and has held adjunct posts at the Universities of Detroit and Pepperdine), Germany and Tunisia. Alastair Mullis is one of the specialist editors for Butterworths, Law of Tort and writes (with Donal Nolan) the annual review of tort cases for the All England Law Reports, Annual Review.[2][3]
In 2010, Alastair Mullis became heavily involved in the public debate on libel reform in the UK, following the publication of a research paper[4] co-authored with Dr Andrew Scott of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The paper responded to 10 recommendations made by the Libel Reform Campaign Archived 2 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine. It emphasised that any reforms must be evidence-based, and that personal and public interests in the protection of privacy and reputation should not be overlooked.[5]
Bibliography
editReferences
edit- ^ "Alastair Mullis - Interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Leeds". THE ORG. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ ESSL. "Professor Alastair Mullis | School of Law | University of Leeds". essl.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Torts". Macmillan International Higher Education. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Something Rotten in the State of English Libel Law? Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "A New Style Public Interest Defence in Libel Law?". Media@LSE. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Torts : Alastair Mullis , Ken Oliphant : Palgrave Macmillan". Palgrave.com. 28 March 2003. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
- ^ "The Cisg". Sellier.de. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2012.