Alex is the author of ‘Advanced, Automated and Electric Vehicle Law’ (Bloomsbury, 2024), Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Road Transport Law at Imperial College London.
Alex Glassbrook specialises in transport law.
His practice includes serious personal injury and insurance work as well as advisory work to industry. He is expert in the law of new transport technologies including e-scooters, e-bikes, micro mobility vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated (‘self-driving’, ‘autonomous’ or ‘driverless’) vehicles. He has advised industry on a range of issues including testing of prototypes.
Alex deals with the civil, criminal and public law aspects of vehicle technology, across practice areas including consumer rights, data protection, environmental law, equality, insurance, personal injury, privacy and product liability.
Chambers and Partners (2023) describes Alex as “the leading light in preparing the Bar for issues relating to driverless cars”. He wrote the first British book on the law of automated vehicles (‘The Law of Driverless Cars: An Introduction’) in 2017. His new book, ‘Advanced, Automated and Electric Vehicle Law’, the first major textbook on the topic, was published by Bloomsbury on 1 February 2024.
Alex also teaches at Imperial College London, where he is the Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Road Transport Law.
Alex accepts instructions to advise on a public access basis.