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whose research has made significant contributions to colonial legal history
and property law. Her work in critical race feminism will be a welcome
addition to the law school’s Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. Professor
Bhandar joins the law school from the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. Her publications include Colonial Lives of Property:
Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Duke University Press,
2018).
Human rights scholarship remains a strong focus at Allard Law, and we
are delighted to be joined by Professor Liora Lazarus, whose work
addresses critical questions at the intersection of security, the rule of law
and fundamental rights. Professor Lazarus joined Allard Law from the University
of Oxford, where she was Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute
of Human Rights. Her scholarship has shaped fields of inquiry such as prisoners’
rights, and she has been active in complementing her academic
research with public engagement, including major public reports and
expert submissions to public inquiries.
Assistant Professor Yuvraj Joshi is another scholar with a focus on
human rights research and advocacy. With a doctoral degree from Yale Law
School, Professor Joshi’s career experience includes work with Human
Rights Watch and the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. His current
research interests are in the areas of constitutional and comparative
law, racial equality law, gender and sexuality law, and critical perspectives
on human rights. His work will contribute as well to Allard Law’s strong
transnational focus.
After the recent retirement of several faculty members with expertise in
private law, we are fortunate to have recruited Assistant Professor Samuel
Beswick, whose research interests are in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment,
limitations, remedies and privacy. Professor Beswick completed his
doctoral degree at Harvard Law School, where he went on to an appointment
as postdoctoral fellow with the Project on the Foundations of Private
Law. He has practised in the Solicitor’s Office of HM Revenue & Customs
(London, U.K.) and as a litigator in the Office of the Crown Solicitor for
Auckland. He also served as a judicial clerk in the High Court of New
Zealand.
Assistant Professor Kristen Thomasen is one of the leading Canadian
scholars working in robotics, artificial intelligence and drone regulation,
and joins us from Windsor Law. Currently completing her doctoral degree
at the University of Ottawa, Professor Thomasen is a regular public commentator
in the media and serves on the Canadian Drone Advisory Committee,
as well as the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.