Alan Reid LL.M. Dip. L.P. LL.B. (Hons.) FHEA.
Senior Lecturer In Law
About
I joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2013 and previously have worked in a number of Universities in Wales, Scotland and Switzerland. I have also been an external examiner for a number of English University LL.M. programmes.
EU Law, Information Technology Law, Online Child Protection and Competition Law.
Research
Publications
Journal articles
Reid, A. (2017). The European Court of Justice Case of Breyer. Journal of Information Rights, Policy and Practice, 1 (2). https://journals.winchesteruniversitypress.org/index.php/jirpp/index
Reid, A. (2010). Understanding environmental law by Mark Stallworthy, Sweet and Maxwell, 2008. Scottish planning and environmental law, 137, 21.
Reid, A. (2009). Online protection of the child within Europe. International review of law, computers & technology, 23 (3), 217-230. http://doi.org/10.1080/13600860903262321
Arnell, P., & Reid, A. (2009). Hackers beware: the cautionary story of Gary McKinnon. Information and communications technology law, 18 (1), 1-12. http://doi.org/10.1080/13600830902727822
Reid, A. (2009). The enforcement of EC environmental law, Pål Wennerås, Oxford University Press, 2007. Scottish planning and environmental law, 131, 21.
Reid, A. (2007). Is society smart enough to deal with smart cards? Computer Law & Security Review, 23 (1), 53-61. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2006.11.006
Reid, A., & Ryder, N. (2005). The state of aid available to credit unions. Wales Journal of Law and Policy, 4 (2), 158-172.
Reid, A., & Ryder, N. (2001). Death of the privy council? Exaggeration or stated fact? Commonwealth Judicial Journal, 14 (1), 32-36. http://www.cmja.org/publications.html
Conference papers
Reid, A. (2008). A Phorm in a Teacup? In 3rd International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT, Prague, 3 September 2008 - 5 September 2008.
Reid, A. (2008). Europe and Online Child Protection. In BILETA Annual Conference 2008, Glasgow, 26 March 2008 - 28 March 2008.
Reid, A. Mobile bullying and the law. In Education law, central law training, Glasgow 2010.
Book chapters
Reid, A. (2018). Financial crime in the twenty-first century: the rise of the virtual collar criminal. In Ryder, N. (Ed.) White collar crime and risk: Financial crime, corruption and the financial crisis. (pp. 231-251). London: Palgrave Macmillan: http://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47384-4
Reid, A. (2018). The EU dimension to the Scottish legal system. In Ashton, C., Chalmers, J., Dempsey, B., Grier, N., McFadzean, D., Reid, A., ... King, S. (Eds.) Understanding Scots law: 3rd edition. Edinburgh: W. Green: http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetails.aspx?productid=727959&recordid=7560
Reid, A. (2018). The EU dimension to the Scottish legal system. In Ashton, C., Chalmers, J., Dempsey, B., Grier, N., McFadzean, D., Reid, A., ... King, S. (Eds.) Understanding Scots law: 3rd edition. Edinburgh: W. Green: http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/ProductDetails.aspx?productid=727959&recordid=7560
Lasok, K.P.E., Peers, S., Lawunmi, D., & Reid, A. (2014). European Law and Institutions. In Stair, J.D. (Ed.) The Laws of Scotland : Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh: Law Society of Scotland: Lexis Nexis: https://store.lexisnexis.co.uk/products/the-laws-of-scotland-stair-memorial-encyclopaedia-skuuksku9780406048493LSVMW29800/details
Reid, A.S. (2014). Virtual currency in a virtual world : virtually unstoppable? In Ryder, N., Turksen, U., & Hassler, S. (Eds.) Fighting Financial Crime in the Global Economic Crisis. (pp. 168-188). Abingdon, Oxon. UK: Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415706933/
Reid, A. (2013). EU law re-issue. In Gordon, G. (Ed.) The laws of Scotland: Stair memorial encyclopaedia. LexisNexis: https://store.lexisnexis.co.uk/products/the-laws-of-scotland-stair-memorial-encyclopaedia-skuuksku9780406048493LSVMW29800/details
Reid, A. (2012). The EU dimension to the Scottish legal system. In Ashton, C., Brand, D., Cameron, G., Chalmers, J., Craig, V., Finch, V., ... Thomson, J. (Eds.) Understanding Scots law 2nd edition: An introduction to Scots law, procedure and legal skills. Edinburgh: W. Green
Reid, A. (2009). Communications law re-issue. In Gordon, G. (Ed.) The laws of Scotland: Stair memorial encyclopaedia. LexisNexis: https://store.lexisnexis.co.uk/products/the-laws-of-scotland-stair-memorial-encyclopaedia-skuuksku9780406048493LSVMW29800/details
Reid, A. (2007). New technology and the legal implications for child protection. In Thom, B., Sales, R., & Pearce, J. (Eds.) Growing Up With Risk. (pp. 95-112). Bristol: The Policy Press: http://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/growing-up-with-risk
Reid, A. (2003). EU competition law and trade associations. In Greenwood, J. (Ed.) The challenge of change in EU business associations. (pp. 74-90). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: http://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523234
Books
Reid, A. (2013). European Union law basics: 5th edition. W. Green. http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/Catalogue/Results.aspx?Nty=1&Ntt=&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntpc=1&Ntpr=1&N=4294967285+4294967256&Ns=sort_ProductFormat%7c0&Ne=7&Ntk=ADVANCED-SEARCH
Reid, A. (2010). European Union law basics: 4th edition. W. Green.
Reid, A. (2007). European community. 3rd edition. Edinburgh: W. Green/Sweet and Maxwell.
Theses / Dissertations
Mallinder, B.T.H. (2017). State-sanctioned torture in Uzbekistan and beyond : a legal analysis. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Burton, S., & Reid, A. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00003
Adshead, D. (2016). Impact of EU-GDPR on local authorities in England : an investigation into how the introduction of new EU data protection legislation will affect Local Authorities in the UK and what the key changes will be that this new law will force on these organisations. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Reid, A.
Adshead, D. (2016). Impact of EU-GDPR on Local Authorities in the UK. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Reid, A.
Hussain, A.I. (2014). Residential mortgages: The legalities surrounding default and repossession. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Reid, A.
Other publications
Reid, A. (2016). Brexit begins : an overview if the legal issues. Steve Peers: http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/07/brexit-begins-overview-of-legal-issues.html
Other activities
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was a member of the cross-disciplinary Scottish Privacy Forum for a number of years
Media
Alan Reid is an expert on social media law. Research interests are on law and new technology, and the law of the European Union. Previously with Robert Gordon University, he is part of the law and criminology team based at Collegiate Crescent.