Dr Isra Black

Lecturer in Law, University College London

Interests

Health Law, Normative Jurisprudence, Normative and Applied Ethics

Background

Dr Isra Black’s primary area of research activity is health law. Methodologically-speaking, most of his work falls within normative jurisprudence. Dr Black employ the tools of philosophy—normative and applied ethics, decision and value theory—to explain law and legal doctrines, and to evaluate the same. Both explanatory and evaluative aspects of his work involve sensitivity to doctrine and institutional context. When we reconstruct health law or argue about how it ought to be, Dr Black believes that we should not see it merely as a branch of medical ethics or moral philosophy. Rather, we must recognise the distinctive and political nature of legal norms as well as the role non-legal institutions may have in shaping and implementing the law. Insofar as he attend to philosophy in law, and how he sees his work as interdisciplinary endeavour.

Contact

isra.black@ucl.ac.uk