Dr. Alexander Layton

Biography

Alexander Layton KC is a Visiting Professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, specializing in private international law. With over 45 years of experience, he handles a wide array of cross-border civil and commercial disputes and aspects of public international law, particularly state immunity. He has appeared as counsel in the Court of Justice of the European Union and in various courts including Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Layton has also provided expert testimony in English and European law proceedings across Europe, Russia, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and the United States. He has been a Bencher of Middle Temple and has served as a Recorder and Deputy High Court Judge. His teaching is focused on private international law, and he has lectured on European and international law in the United States. Prior to his current role, he was a Visiting Fellow at New York University's Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law from 2011 to 2018. Layton is involved in advisory roles at Oxford University and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals related to private international law.

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