Alastair Mullis

Alastair Mullis is a British legal scholar and professor of law. He served as head of the law school and later as executive dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Leeds from 2013 until his retirement in 2023.

Biography

Education

Mullis graduated with an LLB from King's College London in 1984 and obtained his LLM from Downing College, Cambridge in 1985.

Academic career

Mullis taught at King's College London from 1989 to 1999, becoming senior lecturer in 1996. He then joined the University of East Anglia in 1999, serving as Dean from 2001 and Professor from 2005. In 2013, he moved to the University of Leeds as Head of the Law School and served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 2020 until 2022, continuing as Professor of Law until his retirement in 2023.
He has held visiting professorships in Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Southeast Asia.

Contributions to law

Mullis is a specialist editor for Butterworths Law of Tort and writes the annual review of tort cases for the All England Law Reports, Annual Review.

Libel reform advocacy

In 2010, Mullis became involved in public debate on libel reform in the UK, co-authoring a research paper with Dr Andrew Scott of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The paper critically responded to recommendations from the, arguing for evidence-based reforms balancing personal privacy and public interest.