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Samuel Beswick is an Assistant Professor at Peter Allard School of Law, with expertise in private law, particularly in torts, unjust enrichment, limitations, and remedies. His current research focuses on the temporal scope of judicial changes in law and the role of public authority in civil liability. Samuel has published extensively in leading common law journals and has presented his work at workshops and conferences across North America and the United Kingdom. He serves as an editor for long-form open-access publications, including 'Tort Law: Cases Commentaries' and the forthcoming 'Encyclopedia of Private Law: Torts'. He has received recognition for his academic contributions, including the HLS Irving Oberman Memorial Prize for his thesis on constitutional law, which has been favorably cited by the United Kingdom Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Prior to joining the Allard Law faculty, Samuel held teaching positions at Harvard Law School, King’s College London, and the University of Auckland, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Auckland University Law Review.
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