Francis Taylor Building

Michael is building a strong practice across all of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular focus on planning, environmental, highways, and licensing law. Michael acts for a wide range of clients, including central and local government, developers and landowners, and local residents. Michael regularly appears in court, inquiries and hearings in his own right and as junior counsel. Michael is developing a particularly strong High Court practice, having acted successfully for both claimants and defendants in multiple judicial review claims.

• 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

• Planning and Environment Bar Association
• Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association

• 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