Raphaël Tulkens

Practice Overview

Raphaël joined Chambers as a pupil in September 2025.

In the year prior to coming to the Bar, Raphaël worked as the judicial assistant to Lord Leggatt at the UK Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Raphaël qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2020 and obtained Higher Rights of Audience (Civil) in 2024. He trained at Shearman & Sterling LLP (now A&O Shearman), where he completed secondments in Paris (International Arbitration) and Brussels (Antitrust). Upon qualification, he joined the firm’s International Arbitration and Public International Law Group in London, where he worked on investor-State, commercial, and construction arbitrations, as well as ancillary proceedings before the English courts.

Raphaël holds a BA in Philosophy (First Class) from the New College of the Humanities (University of London), and a BA in Jurisprudence with Senior Status (First Class) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. Among other academic awards, he received the D’Souza Prize for best overall performance in the Senior Status BA at Oxford and the Peter Rowley Prize for best performance in Land Law at University College, Oxford.

Raphaël is fluent in French and English.