Professor Alastair Mullis is Head of the School of Law at the University of Leeds. He is a graduate of King’s College London (LLB, 1984) and Downing College Cambridge (LLM, 1985). Prior to joining Leeds, he held positions at King’s College London (1989-1999) and the University of East Anglia (1999-2013) where he was Dean and Head of the Law School for eight years.
His research interests lie in the fields of tort law, especially defamation and related wrongs, media law and aspects of international commercial law. He is the joint general editor (with HHJ Richard Parkes QC) of the leading book in the common law world on the law of libel and related wrongs (Gatley on Libel and Slander) and was previously general editor (with Cameron Doley) of Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy and the author of the chapters on the English law of defamation. He is also the author of books on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the law of torts and has written many articles on these and other subjects.