Professor Masood Ahmed

University of Leicester

Masood Ahmed is an Associate Professor at the University of Leicester. Prior to academia, Masood qualified as a solicitor at an international commercial law firm and focused on commercial dispute resolution and commercial transactional work. At the University of Leicester, he teaches and researches in civil procedure, the civil justice system and reform and alternative dispute resolution and has written extensively in these areas. He has been involved in implementing key civil justice reforms including the Jackson Reforms on Civil Litigation Costs and the Briggs Civil Courts Structure Review. He was a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (two terms) and worked closely with senior members of the judiciary and leading practitioners in drafting procedural rules and implementing reform projects. He is currently a member of the Civil Justice Council Pre-action Protocol Review Main Working Party. Masood is the ADR and case note editor for the leading international academic journal the Civil Justice Quarterly; commentator of the Civil Procedure Rules; and an editorial member of the Journal of Personal Injury Law. He convenes the Dispute Resolution Research Cluster at the University of Leicester, and convenes the Civil Justice Systems and ADR stream for the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference. He was invited to deliver a series of lectures on international commercial arbitration to Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia and was a visiting professor in international commercial arbitration at Masaryk University (Czech Republic).