Dr Noam Gur, LLB (summa cum laude) (Jerusalem), BCL (Distinction), MPhil (Distinction), DPhil (Oxford)

Profile

Noam Gur is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law at Queen Mary University of London. He specializes in jurisprudence and has further research interests in political philosophy and tort theory. In jurisprudence, his primary research focus is the normativity of law and its interaction with practical reason, which is also the topic of his book Legal Directives and Practical Reasons (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Dr Gur teaches the Jurisprudence and Legal Theory module, and has previously also taught the Tort Law module.

He is the Law Department’s Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and a member of the Executive of the UK Branch of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR). He is a former Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context at Queen Mary.

Before joining Queen Mary, Dr Gur was a postdoctoral fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He read Law as a postgraduate at the University of Oxford and as an undergraduate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dr Gur welcomes approaches from prospective PhD students for supervision in legal theory or other areas of legal research where the proposed project substantially involves legal theory.

Undergraduate Teaching

• LAW6021 Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
• LAW5001 Tort Law

Postgraduate Teaching

Teaching accreditation: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research

Dr Gur’s primary research areas are jurisprudence and legal theory. His other research interests include political theory, tort law and medical malpractice. His current research in jurisprudence focuses on the interface between law and practical reason (the topic of a monograph he is presently writing). Another topic he is currently researching is the role of policy arguments in judicial reasoning, particularly in the context of tort adjudication.

Publications

Books

Gur N., Legal Directives and Practical Reasons (Oxford University Press, 2018)

• Awarded joint Second Prize of the SLS Peter Birks Book Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2019
• Reviewed:
  
  • Barbara Levenbook, JOTWELL, 12 August 2019
  • N. P. Adams (2019) 82 Modern Law Review 1179-1183
  • Luigi Lonardo (2020) 33 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 493-499
  • Andreas Vassiliou (2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 943-962
  • Forthcoming Review Symposium in the journal Jurisprudence

Other Publications

• Gur N., ‘Cognitive Biases and Political Obligation’, in George Klosko (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Obligation (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• Gur N., ‘The Razian Response to Philosophical Anarchism: A Probe into the Authority-Autonomy Tension’ (2024) 37(4) Ratio Juris, Early View publication 11 Dec 2024.
• Gur N., ‘Reflections on the Justifiability of Authority: Raz vs. Wolff’, In Bertea S and Beyleveld D (eds.) Theories of Legal Obligation (Law and Philosophy Library Series, Springer, 2024) 151-168
• Gur N., ‘Legal Rules as a Bias-Counteracting Device’, Diritto & Questioni Pubbliche, Special Volume August 2023, 1-22.
• Gur N., ‘Facts, Artifacts, and Law-Given Reasons’, in Burazin, L., Himma, K. E., Roversi, C., and Banaś, P. (eds), The Artifactual Nature of Law (Edward Elgar, 2022) 199-222
• Gur, N. and Jackson, J.,'Procedure-content interaction in attitudes to law and in the value of the rule of law: an empirical and philosophical collaboration' in Meyerson, D., Mackenzie, C and MacDermott, T. (eds.) Procedural Justice and Relational Theory: Philosophical, Empirical and Legal Perspectives (Routledge, 2021, first published online: 30 Oct 2020)
• Gur N., 'Legal Facts and Reasons for Action: Between Deflationary and Robust Conceptions of Law’s Reason-Giving Capacity', in Nicoletta Bersier, Christoph Bezemek, and Frederick Schauer (eds.), The Normative Force of The Factual: Legal Philosophy Between Is and Ought (Springer Law and Philosophy Library, 2019) 151-170
• Gur N., ‘Ronald Dworkin and the Curious Case of the Floodgates Argument’ (2018) 31(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 323-345 
• Gur N., ‘Private Law Adjudication as an Arena of Struggle Between Principle and Policy’, New Private Law (Harvard’s blog on the foundations of private law) 19 Aug 2015
• Gur, N., ‘Wrongful Life Claims and Negligent Selection of Gametes or Embryos in Infertility Treatments: A Quest for Coherence’ (2014) 22 Journal of Law and Medicine 426-441
• Gur, N., 'Form and Value in Law' (2014) 5(1) Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought 85-95
• Gur, N., 'Actions, Attitudes, and the Obligation to Obey the Law' (2013) 21(3) Journal of Political Philosophy 326-346
• Gur, N., 'Normative Weighing and Legal Guidance of Conduct' (2012) 25(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 359-391
• Gur, N., 'Are Legal Rules Content-Independent Reasons?' (2011) 5 Problema 175-210
• Gur, N., 'Legal Directives in the Realm of Practical Reason: A Challenge to the Pre-emption Thesis' (2007) 52 American Journal of Jurisprudence 159-228.

Work in progress

• Gur N., ’Exclusionary Reasons in Discourse about Authority and Law’, for Encyclopaedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy

Supervision

Dr Gur welcomes approaches from prospective PhD students for supervision in legal theory or other areas of legal research where the proposed project substantially involves legal theory.

Public Engagement

Related news

• Dr Noam Gur spoke at the 2024 World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
  24 July 2024
• Dr Noam Gur spoke at a University of Hull workshop on Virtue Jurisprudence
  30 January 2024
• Dr Noam Gur gives lecture series at the University of Palermo
  30 June 2023
• Dr Noam Gur speaks at the European research partnership ‘RECOGNISE’
  20 March 2023
• Dr Noam Gur speaks at the University of Palermo about autonomy, authority, and philosophical anarchism
  14 July 2022
• Dr Noam Gur co-organises the UK-IVR Annual Conference 2022
  22 June 2022
• Noam Gur awarded second prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2019
  28 October 2019
• Dr Noam Gur's recent book shortlisted for Outstanding Legal Scholarship prize
  26 July 2019
• New book: 'Legal Directives and Practical Reasons' by Dr Noam Gur
  26 September 2018
• Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context holds first International Dialogue with Erasmus Law School
  1 November 2016
• Dr Noam Gur on the Tension between Principle and Policy in Private Law Adjudication
  25 August 2015
• Dr Noam Gur speaks at 'Perspectives on Legal Authority' workshop, University of Edinburgh
  9 June 2015