Alan Reid

Biography

Alan S. Reid is anAssociate Professor in Law at the University of Bradford. He has taught law at variousuniversities in England, Wales, Scotland and Switzerland during his 26-yearcareer in legal academia. He is an experienced external examiner at bothundergraduate and postgraduate level. To date, he has successfully supervisedfour PhD students and has experience as a PhD examiner. He is an expert in the law of the EuropeanUnion, UK Constitutional law and Information Technology law. His particularresearch interests lie in cybercrime and electronic communications law,particularly as regards the interception of communications by the State. He isthe author of a number of undergraduate student textbooks on EU law, various legaljournal articles concerning competition law, virtual currencies and statesurveillance and book chapters on Scots law, online child protection, onlineprivacy and virtual criminality. He has been a legal consultant for Halsbury’sLaws of England and has written two editions of the Communications Law Reissuefor the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia of the Laws of Scotland, the Scottishequivalent of Halsbury’s. He has also been a legal consultant to ETSI, theEuropean Telecommunications Standards Institute and has been a board member fora homelessness charity and a social housing charity as well as acting as aparent governor. He has also authored seven chapters of the SQE Prep andPractice textbook from Oxford University Press, a textbook specificallydesigned to help students navigate their way through the SQE 1 element of thenew route to qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales.