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Michael Feeney

02073538415 clerks@ftbchambers.co.uk

Position

Michael was called to the Bar in 2021 and completed pupillage under the supervision of Isabella Tafur, Gregory Jones KC and Craig Howell Williams KC. Michael is building a strong practice across all of Chambers’ practice areas and regularly appears in court, inquiries and hearings in his own right and as junior counsel. Michael also has a busy advisory practice.

Michael is currently seconded part-time to Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where he advises on a broad range of planning issues.

Career

• Residential Scholarship, Gray’s Inn
• Prince of Wales Scholarship, Gray’s Inn
• Michael Beloff Essay Prize
• City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence
• Tatjana Finkelstein GDL Scholarship, Gray’s Inn
• Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago
• Social Sciences Fellowship, University of Chicago
• New College Scholarship for performance in First Year Examinations
• Non-fiction Reader at The Chicago Review, September 2018-June 2019
• English Teacher, Benedict School, Carpi, Italy, September 2017-July 2018
• HR Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, July-August 2015
• Research Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, July-August 2014

Memberships

• Planning and Environment Bar Association.
• UK Environmental Law Association.

Education

• Bar Professional Training Course. Distinction
• GDL, Oxford Brookes University. Distinction
• MA History, The University of Chicago. 4.0 GPA
• MSt History, New College, University of Oxford. Distinction
• BA History, New College, University of Oxford. First in Finals and Distinction in First Year Examinations