Jason Varuhas
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Jason Varuhas is a New Zealand academic specializing in administrative law, the law of torts, the law of remedies, and the intersection of public and private law.[1] He is currently Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge.[1]
Early life and education
Varuhas attended high school at Scots College, Wellington, graduating in 1999.[2] 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.[3]
Upon graduation, Varuhas commenced work as a law clerk to Justice O'Regan before returning to faculty as an Assistant Lecturer in 2006.[3] 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.[3]
Varuhas completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. For that thesis he was awarded the Yorke Prize.[3]
Academic career
Before taking up his current appointments, Varuhas was previously a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales.[citation needed]
Awards
- 2012 Yorke Prize for his doctoral thesis titled: "Damages for Breaches of Human Rights: A Tort-Based Approach".[3]
- 2016 Peter Birks prize for outstanding legal scholarship[4][5]
- 2018 Inner Temple New Authors Book Prize[6][7]
Bibliography
- Damages and Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2016) ISBN 9781849463720
- Varuhas, J. (2020). The Principle of Legality. The Cambridge Law Journal, 79(3), 578-614. doi:10.1017/S0008197320000598
