Samuel Beswick

Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick is a private law scholar with primary research interests in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment, limitations, remedies, and privacy. His current research concerns the temporal scope of judicial changes in the law. Dr. Beswick has published his research in leading common law journals, and has presented at workshops and conferences across North America and in the United Kingdom. He is the editor of the open access coursebook, Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries (2021 CanLIIDocs 1859). He has held teaching positions at Harvard Law School, King’s College London, and the University of Auckland. Dr. Beswick is a 2021-23 Green College Leading Scholar. He studied at Harvard as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow and a Peter Brooks Saltonstall Memorial Scholar. He wrote his dissertation under Professor John C.P. Goldberg and received the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Constitutional Law. His thesis was favourably cited in a 2020 judgment of the United Kingdom Supreme Court. Dr. Beswick was also Deputy Executive Editor of the Harvard National Security Journal and President of the SJD Association. At Auckland, he wrote his dissertation under Associate Professor Scott Optican and received the New Zealand Ministry of Justice Article Prize. He was also an Editor-in-Chief of the Auckland University Law Review and graduated a Senior Scholar in Law.

Prior to joining Allard Law, Dr. Beswick was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law, practised in the Solicitor’s Office of HM Revenue & Customs (London, UK), practised as a litigator at Meredith Connell (the Office of the Crown Solicitor for Auckland), and was a judicial clerk in the High Court of New Zealand.

Education

• Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) Harvard Law School (2016 — 2019)
• Master of Laws (LL.M.) Harvard Law School (2013 — 2014)
• LL.B. (Hons), B.Com University of Auckland (2005 — 2010)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC (2020)
• Academic Fellow, Project on the Foundations of Private Law Harvard Law School (2019 — 2020)
• Summer Academic Fellow Harvard Law School (2019 — 2019)
• Graduate Program Fellow Harvard Law School (2016 — 2019)
• Lawyer (litigation) HM Revenue & Customs (2015 — 2016)
• Visiting Lecturer The Dickson Poon School of Law (2016 — 2016)
• Summer Academic Fellow Harvard Law School (2014 — 2014)
• Solicitor / Jr Crown Counsel Meredith Connell (2012 — 2013)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant The University of Auckland (2010 — 2013)