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Penelope Nevill
Work Department
- Arbitration and mediation
- Commercial Law
- Constitutional, public and human rights law
- Public international law
Position
Penelope is a specialist in international law. Her practice focuses on disputes and transactional advice across a range of areas, including public international law, EU law, public law and human rights, commercial disputes raising questions of international and EU law and the interaction between legal systems and regimes.
She has appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the General Court of the EU and a United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Annex VII Tribunal, as well as the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of England and Wales. In addition, Penelope regularly provides transactional advice to governments, the private sector and NGOs.
Penelope has extensive and varied experience in practice and academia. Her career commenced as a litigation lawyer in New Zealand with leading firm Chapman Tripp and includes time as a full-time academic at the University of Cambridge, teaching public international law, EU law and the law of armed conflict. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at King’s College, London.
Penelope is a panellist on the Attorney General’s Specialist Public International Law Panel (B Panel) and the General Panel (B Panel).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4London Bar > Public international law
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Penelope Nevill –Twenty Essex ‘She is undoubtedly one of the talents in the field. She is knowledgeable, diligent, and fluent, both orally and in writing, with an unusually astute facility for grasping the essential policy context of international issues.’