Samuel Beswick

Dr. Beswick is a Green College Member of Common Room and former Leading Scholar. He studied at Harvard Law School as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow and a Peter Brooks Saltonstall Memorial Scholar. He wrote his dissertation under Professor John C.P. Goldberg, a chapter of which received the HLS Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Constitutional Law. His thesis was favourably cited in a 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 Law School, he wrote his dissertation under Associate Professor Scott Optican, which was published 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 had held teaching positions at Harvard Law School, King’s College London, and the University of Auckland. He 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 judges' clerk in the High Court of New Zealand.