
Mr Harry Maunder
Visiting Lecturer, MSc in Law and Professional Practice
Research interests
- Law
Contact details
Biography
Harry is a future Pupil Barrister, having attained a commercial pupillage at Keating Chambers (to commence in September 2026).
Harry joined King’s as a Visiting Lecturer in 2025. He also holds a position as a Visiting Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), having taught third-year Company Law from 2024-2025.
Before joining King’s, Harry worked for two leading international shipping law firms in London, whose work spanned dry shipping, commodities disputes, trade finance and marine insurance, with a particular emphasis on litigation and arbitration on the LMAA, LCIA and ICC forms.
Harry was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2025, having attained a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Bar Practice from the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) where he was awarded a major scholarship (Lord Denning Scholar) and made a Residential Scholar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn.
Harry read law at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, attaining an LLM (Master of Law) with commercial designation. While at Cambridge, Harry served as an Editor on the Cambridge Law Review, and upon completion of his studies was awarded the McMahon Studentship by St John’s College towards the completion of the Bar Course.
Prior to this, he read law at the University of Exeter, achieving a first-class law degree (LLB Hons), while winning multiple academic prizes and awards; most notably, the Dean’s Commendation for exceptional performance, attaining the highest mark in the second-year Comparative Contract Law module (this paper formed the foundations of a more extensive thesis, which was subsequently published and led to him being awarded a place on the MPhil in Law programme at the University of Oxford), and winning the ‘Contract Law prize’ for both the best performance overall in the Law of Contract (1/450) and the highest mark in the written paper on penalty clauses.
Research interests
- The Law of Obligations
- Company Law
- Commercial Remedies
- Contract law
- Commercial Law
- Shipping Law
- International Commercial Litigation
Selected publications
- Anchored in Choppy Waters: A Critical Evaluation of the Law of Arrest in English Shipping Law’. Lincoln’s Inn Student Law Journal 2024.
- A Theoretical Justification for the Continued Existence of the Penalty Rule post-Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi: ParkingEye Ltd V Barry Beavis (2015) UKSC [67]’. Published in the Durham Law Review’s Annual Journal (Volume VII D.L.R [2022]).