Prior to Mr. Gibb’s appointment at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, he was Bar Vocational Course Director at Manchester Metropolitan University. Since 1990 he was also a regular visitor to Hong Kong to teach as a Visiting Professor for  Hong Kong University (SPACE) on their Bar, LLB and CPE programmes. His main areas of teaching interest are in relation to Contract, Private International Law and Legal Skills.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• LLB Queens University Belfast
• Barrister (England and Northern Ireland)

AWARDS

• The Outstanding Part-time Teacher Award by HKU SPACE in 2001
• Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2016

APPOINTMENTS

• Examiner in Commercial Law PCLL Conversion Board

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Contract Law
• Private International Law

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Alan Gibb and Dicky Tsang, ‘Conflicting Limitation Periods: A Comparison Between Hong Kong and Mainland China’ (2022) 5(1) Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review 1-39.
• Joint Author (with Richard Morris and King Fung Tsang) An Introduction to the Conflict of Laws in Hong Kong(Lexis Nexis) 2nd Edition 2019
• Editor  Conflict of Laws  Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong 2019
• Joint Author (with Richard Morris) Chapter on Hong Kong Conflict of Laws for Asian Conflict of Laws: East and South Asia (Kluwer) 2015
• Joint Editor (with Prof Dennis Hie) Chapter on Suretyship and Guarantees Chitty on Contract –Hong Kong Specific Contracts
• “Mainland China :forum non conveniens?” Hong Kong Lawyer December 2011
• Unfair Contracts in the Music Industry Business Law Review