Samuel Beswick

Assistant Professor
LLM, SJD (Harvard), LLB(Hons), BCom (Auckland), Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand

Office:
Allard Hall, room 444
Phone: 604 827 0865

Email: beswick@allard.ubc.ca

Profile

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 attended 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.

Courses

LAW 241: Torts

LAW 436: Restitution and Unjust Enrichment

LAW 432: Law’s Temporal Dimensions

Publications

	Samuel Beswick “Discoverability Principles and the Law's Mistakes” (2020) 136 L.Q. Rev. 139-164 UBC Library Location SSRN Abstract
	Samuel Beswick “Error of Law: An Exception to the Discoverability Principle?” (2020) 58 Osgoode Hall L.J. SSRN Abstract
	Samuel Beswick “The Discoverability of Mistakes of Law” Introduction: (2019) 58 LMCLQ 112-137 SSRN Abstract
	Samuel Beswick & William Fotherby “Surveilling the Stopgap” (December 2011) NZLJ 404-411 UBC Library Location SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick “Tenant Fees Act 2019: A Welcome Reform” (2019) 23:3 Landlord & Tenant Rev 79-81 SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick & William Fotherby “The Divergent Paths of Commonwealth Privacy Torts” (2018) 84 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. (2d) 225-267 UBC Library Location SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick “Tenant Fees Bill: Good Intentions - Weak Protections” (2018) 22:6 Landlord & Tenant Rev 203-207 SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick “The Decline of the Fish/Mammal Distinction?” Full text: (2017) 165 U Pa L Rev Online 91-97 SSRN Abstract
	Samuel Beswick & William Fotherby “Don't Tell Me What the Papers Say: PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd” (2016) 5 J Civ Lit & Prac 212-220 SSRN Abstract
	Samuel Beswick “Enforcing a Holding Deposit Agreement” (2015) 22:3 Landlord & Tenant Rev 88-91 SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick “Holding Deposit Agreements: Pre-Tenancy Obligations and Rights” (2019) 23:3 Landlord & Tenant Rev 79-81 SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick “'Losses in Any Event' in the Case of Damage to Property” Full text: (2015) 35:4 Oxford J Legal Stud 755-775 SSRN Abstract
	Samuel Beswick “Privacy: Rights, Remedies and Reform” (May 2015) NZLJ 166 UBC Library Location SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick “From Foundations to Finish? The Continuing Duty Doctrine and Limitations” (2013) NZL Rev 505-520 UBC Library Location SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick “Two Spying Tales” (July 2013) NZLJ 213-214 UBC Library Location SSRN Paper
	Samuel Beswick & Meredith Connell “For Your (Government's) Eyes Only” (July 2013) NZLJ 213-216 UBC Library Location	Samuel Beswick “Perlustration in the Pathless Woods: Hamed v R” Full text: (2011) Auckland UL Rev 291-299 SSRN Paper
	Samuel P. Beswick “Targeted Visual Surveillance in New Zealand: An Analysis and Critique of the Search and Surveillance Bill” Full text: (2010) NZ L Students' Rev 239-266 SSRN Paper