Jason Varuhas is a
New Zealander academic specializing in
administrative law,
the law of torts,
the law of remedies, and the intersection of
public and
private law
Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the ''jus commune'' that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations ( ...
.
He is currently Professor of Law at
Melbourne Law School
Melbourne Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of the University of Melbourne. Located in Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne Law School is Australia's oldest law school, and offers J.D., LL.M, Ph.D, and LL.D degrees. In 2021-22, THE ...
. He is also an Associate Fellow of the
Centre for Public Law at the
University of Cambridge.
Early life and education
Varuhas attended high school at
Scots College, Wellington, graduating in 1999. He studied at the
Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law, graduating in 2004 with an LLB Honours, also completing a
BA in
Economics that year.
Upon graduation, Varuhas commenced work as a law clerk to Justice
O'Regan O'Regan can refer to:
Places
*O'Regan's, Newfoundland and Labrador, a village in Newfoundland, Canada
People
*Brian O'Regan (disambiguation), several people
*Daniel O'Regan, New Zealand rugby league player
*Danny O'Regan, American ice hockey playe ...
before returning to faculty as an Assistant Lecturer in 2006.
He completed an
LLM at
University College London on
Commonwealth Scholarship in 2008, winning the Derby/Bryce Prize in Law for best results in final examinations across all
University of London law schools.
Varuhas completed his PhD at the
University of Cambridge. For that thesis he was awarded the
Yorke Prize
The Yorke Prize is awarded annually by the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge for an essay of between 30,000 and 100,000 words on a legal subject, including the history, analysis, administration and reform of law, "of exceptional quality ...
.
Academic career
Before taking up his current appointments, Varuhas was previously a senior lecturer at the
University of New South Wales.
Awards
* 2012
Yorke Prize
The Yorke Prize is awarded annually by the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge for an essay of between 30,000 and 100,000 words on a legal subject, including the history, analysis, administration and reform of law, "of exceptional quality ...
for his doctoral thesis titled: "Damages for Breaches of Human Rights: A Tort-Based Approach".
* 2016
Peter Birks prize for outstanding legal scholarship
* 2018
Inner Temple New Authors Book Prize
Bibliography
*
Damages and Human Rights' (Hart Publishing, 2016)
* Varuhas, J. (2020). The Principle of Legality. ''The Cambridge Law Journal,'' ''79''(3), 578-614. do
10.1017/S0008197320000598
See also
*
Principle of Legality (Australia)
References
New Zealand legal scholars
21st-century New Zealand lawyers
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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