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David Pope

David

Teaching Fellow

Email: d.x.pope@qmul.ac.uk

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.

Postgraduate Teaching

David Pope convenes the following postgraduate module:

Research

Publications

  • Co-author, Mooting and advocacy skills, 3rd ed. (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2015)
  • Co-author, UK ADR Client Strategies (Aspatore, 2008)
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