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Professor Alan Reed

Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor

Department: Northumbria Law School

He was awarded the Herbert Smith prize for Conflict of Laws and the Dr.Lancey Prize. Cambridge University awarded him a full Holland Scholarship to facilitate study in the United States and he obtained an LLM Master of Laws (comparative law) at the University of Virginia. After completion of the Law Society finals at Northumbria, he spent three years in practice in London at Addleshaw Goddard, and also acted as a Tutor in Law at Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent seven years at Leeds University Law School, specialising in criminal and private international law, and was then engaged as Professor of Criminal and Private International Law at Sunderland University.

Prof Alan led the RAE Strategy group that made all determinative inclusionary and policy decisions across nineteen units of assessment, and acted as Director of Research for the Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism. In April 2012 he was appointed Associate Dean(Research and Innovation) and Professor of Law at Northumbria University. He has published over 180 monographs, textbooks and articles in the substantive arena in leading journals in England, Australia, Florida and Los Angeles, and since 2005 has been entered in Who’s Who in American Law, and acts as Editor of The Journal of Criminal Law.

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  • Reconceptualising Sexual Infidelity Provocation: New Anglo-Scottish Reform Proposals, Wake, N., Reed, A. Feb 2024, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Loss of Control – Domestic and Comparative Perspectives, Clough, A., Reed, A. 1 Apr 2023, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Fault in Criminal Law: A Research Companion, Reed, A., Bohlander, M., Simpson, B., Adams, V. 22 Aug 2022
  • Reform of Anglo-American Complicity Law: Conduct, Connectivity and Comparative Solutions, Reed, A. Dec 2022, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Reform of Complicity Precepts: New Pathways and Comparative Solutions, Reed, A. 1 Dec 2022, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Strict Liability Crimes, Reed, A. 22 Aug 2022, Fault in Criminal Law, London, Taylor & Francis
  • Anglo-American Perspectives on Omissions Liability: Theoretical and Substantive Contours of Criminalisation and Optimal Reform Pathways, Reed, A., Sarahne, M. 11 Jun 2021, In: Journal of International and Comparative Law
  • Criminalisation and the Contours of Liability: Current Legal Issues and Comparative Reform Solutions, Reed, A., Simpson, B. Jun 2021, In: Journal of International and Comparative Law
  • The Role of Loss of Self-control in Defences to Homicide: A Critical Analysis of Anglo-Australian Developments, Douglas, H., Reed, A. 16 Sep 2021, In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
  • Lived Experiences, Bodily Autonomy and the Framing of Criminal Responsibility, Ashford, C., Reed, A. 1 Dec 2020, In: The Journal of Criminal Law

Law LLM September 01 1989


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