Profile
David Pope is a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. Before joining CCLS, David practised as a commercial barrister in London for over 20 years. He specialised in banking litigation, acting for many of the UK’s largest financial institutions. He also represented a range of other businesses in court and arbitral proceedings, including Big Four accountancy firms, and multinational energy, media, and hotel companies. David remains a door tenant at Outer Temple Chambers.
Alongside his teaching at CCLS, David delivers training to solicitors on advocacy-related skills and English civil procedure. His clients include leading commercial law firms in the City of London, Scotland, and the Republic of Ireland. Between 2010 and 2020, David was a teaching fellow at the law faculty of University College London.
David holds an LLB (Hons.) from the University of Edinburgh and an LLM from Harvard Law School, where he was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow.