Practice Profile
Francis Reynolds KC(Hon.), D.C.L., F.B.A. is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Oxford, and the writer over a period of 40 years of Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency (which has now been taken over by a colleague, but he remains involved in parts of it); also of parts of Carver on Bills of Lading, Benjamin’s Sale of Goods, Chitty on Contracts and English Private Law. He is a titulary member of the C.M.I., and served as one of the Advisors to the American Law Institute in connection with Restatement, Third, Agency. He is standing consultant on English law to Ang & Partners (Singapore) and undertakes international and domestic advisory work, including expert evidence, in the areas covered by his books, including conflict of laws aspects. He accepts appointment as arbitrator, and has sat under ICC, LMAA and SMCA Rules.
Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford; Professor of Law Emeritus in the University of Oxford.
Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple.
Doctor of Civil Law; Fellow of the British Academy.
Honorary Professor, International Law Institute of the IMO, Malta
Titulary Member of the Comite Maritime International
Supporting Member of the L.M.A.A.
One of Advisers to American Law Institute on Restatement, Third, Agency
Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency should be 13th-18th (2006) editions
Chitty on Contracts should be 24th – 33rd (2019) eds
Carver on Bills of Lading should be 1st – 4th (2017) eds
I was the Editor of the Law Quarterly Review till 2014.
Writer of Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency 13th-17th (2001) editions
Writer of parts of Chitty on Contracts 24th-28th (1999) eds, of Benjamin’s Sale of Goods 1st-6th (2001) editions and of English Private Law ed Birks (2000) and joint writer with Sir Guenter Treitel of Carver on Bills of Lading (1st ed., 2001)
Editor, The Law Quarterly Review from 1987
Consultant Editor, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
Francis Reynolds Q.C accepts appointment as arbitrator, and has sat under ICC, LMAA and SMCA Rules.