Supreme Court Law Review, 2nd Series, Volume 109

Marcus Moore is a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University and Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law. He holds degrees from Harvard University and McGill University, where he was the Gold Medalist and graduated from the Honours Thesis program. Marcus is a former law clerk of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada. His research is published in leading national and international law journals. A former draft pick of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins (retired due to injury), he mentored his two younger brothers to Harvard and the NHL, and is the author of two prize-winning books on ice hockey.

Samuel Beswick is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law. His scholarly interests lie in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment, limitations and remedies. His current research concerns the temporal scope of judicial changes in the law. Dr. Beswick is the editor of the open-access casebook, Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries (CanLII). His doctoral dissertation on The Discoverability of Mistakes of Law was supervised by Professor John C.P. Goldberg at Harvard Law School. It received the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Constitutional Law and was favourably cited by the United Kingdom Supreme Court in FII Test Claimants v. Revenue and Customs [2020] UKSC 47. 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. He also held part-time teaching positions at Harvard Law School, King’s College London and the University of Auckland.