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Harry Hatwell is undertaking pupillage at Gough Square Chambers with a practising second six commencing in April 2026. In addition to pupillage, Harry teaches trusts at King’s College London and torts at Queen Mary.

As part of his pupillage, he has co-edited the chapter on consumer credit law in the Pink Book (Consumer and Trading Standards: Law and Practice) and drafted documents for High Court proceedings. Harry has attended proceedings at all levels in both civil and criminal matters. He combines his busy pupillage with university teaching. As a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, Harry is teaching trusts. As a Teaching Associate at Queen Mary, University of London, Harry taught contract law in autumn 2025 and is teaching torts in spring 2026.

Harry is a qualified (non-practising) solicitor, having trained at one of London’s leading international commercial law firms. He won a prestigious scholarship which enabled him to return to university upon qualification, graduating from Oxford with a distinction in the BCL. Harry has enjoyed a stellar academic career and has studied at the top law schools in the UK (Oxford – twice), the USA (Yale), and France (Assas).

Most recently, during his LL.M. year at the Yale Law School, Harry served on four journals, convened a for-credit reading group, and worked as a research assistant to professors in the Law School and School of Management. He was also accepted to present his original research at three international conferences and invited to contribute to a book recording the proceedings of one such conference.

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  • Mediation
    Harry is qualified to take instructions as a Civil & Commercial Mediator, having trained with the Society of Mediators during his pupillage.
    He welcomes instructions to act as a mediator from April 2026.
  • Teaching
    • Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London (2026-present)
    • Teaching Associate, Queen Mary, University of London (2025-present)
  • Prior Professional Experience

    Harry trained at Slaughter and May in London (2021-23), where he was awarded numerous departmental and cohort-wide prizes for submission of legal know-how.

    A flavour of his broad experience at Slaughter and May:

    • In the Disputes & Investigations department, he assisted on the Municipio de Mariana appeal (the largest class action in English legal history), as well as long-running competition litigation, and drafted training materials for FTSE 100 companies on consumer and competition law.
    • In Financing, he researched and drafted a detailed note of advice on conflicts of law.
    • In Employment, Pensions, and Incentives, he researched and drafted substantive technical correspondence, notes of advice on whistleblowing, industrial action, transgender and intersex inclusion in sport.
    • In Corporate, he advised FTSE 100 clients on preparing for AGMs and researched matters relating to a CMA greenwashing / consumer protection matter.
    • Throughout his training contract, Harry maintained a busy pro bono practice. He volunteered for St Luke’s Job Clinic, advised a client for Access Social Care, prepared materials for an entrepreneurship scheme with Barclays, researched and advised on charities law, drafted training materials for charity trustees, and participated in community projects and outreach.

    During his LL.M. year, Harry served as research assistant to Professor and former Dean of Yale Law School Robert Post (preparing the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy), and to Professor Fiona Scott Morton (preparing journal articles on American and EU antitrust law). Journals: Senior Submissions Advisor, Yale Law & Policy Review; Articles & Essays Editor, Yale Law & Policy Review; Articles Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism; Lead Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation; Notes and Comments Editor, Yale Journal of Law & Humanities.

    During the BCL, Harry served as research assistant to Professor Jérôme Baudry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He also wrote a moot problem on consumer contract law for the compulsory mooting course for first-year law students on the BA in Jurisprudence at Oxford. In addition, Harry was employed by the Oxford Faculty of Law as the coach for Oxford’s team in the international Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2023/24. Equally as enjoyable and no less important, Harry also played Eugene in the musical Grease at Pembroke College and served as the assistant lighting / sound operator for A Series of Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis: The Musical.

    Until indefinitely postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Harry was due to serve as the Foreign Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, Esther Hayut, having been selected in a competitive international application process.

  • Education

    LL.M. – Yale Law School, USA 2024-25

    Bachelor of Civil Law – St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK (Distinction) 2023-24

    Legal Practice Course – BPP Law School, UK (Distinction) 2021

    European Law Certificate – Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), France (Pass) 2018-19

    BA in Jurisprudence (Law with Law Studies in Europe) – St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK (First Class, ranked fifth in year across Oxford) 2016-20

  • Achievements

    Brodie Center for Jewish & Israeli Law grant (to present research at international conference), Yale Law School – 2025

    Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund grant (to present research at international conference; two domestic research trips), Yale Law School – 2025

    Streicker Fund for Student Research (major international travel grant for fieldwork), Yale Law School – 2024

    Law Faculty Prize for Modern Legal History (best performance in BCL paper), Oxford – 2024

    College Prize for achieving a distinction, Oxford – 2024

    One Essex Court Chambers Scholarship for the BCL, Oxford – 2024

    College Prize for achieving first-class honours, Oxford – 2020

    College Book Prize for performance in Administrative Law collection, Oxford – 2019

  • Languages

    Harry is fluent in French and developing his Hebrew.