Alexander Bayne of Rires (c. 1675[1] – June 1737) was the first tenant of the chair of Scots law in the University of Edinburgh.
[2] In January 1722 Bayne was appointed curator of the Advocates' Library, and on the establishment of the chair of Scots law in the university of Edinburgh in the same year the town council elected him to fill it.
[2] In 1726 Bayne published an edition of Sir Thomas Hope's Minor Practicks.
He appended a Discourse on the Rise and Progress of the Law of Scotland and the Method of Studying it.
In 1730 he published Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland (Edinburgh), for the use of students attending his lectures, and in 1731 Notes for the Use of Students of the Municipal Law in the University of Edinburgh, being a Supplement to the Institutes of Sir George Mackenzie.