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

Noam

Senior Lecturer in Law

Email: n.gur@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: 203, Law Building, Mile End

Profile

Noam Gur is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in jurisprudence and has further research interests in political theory. One of his major research interests is the interface between law and practical reason, which is also the topic of his book Legal Directives and Practical Reasons (Oxford University Press, 2018). In addition, he has written on theoretical and applied questions surrounding the rule of law, judicial decision-making, political obligation, and other topics at the foundation of law and authority.

Dr Gur teaches the LLB module Jurisprudence & Legal Theory and the LLM module Common Law from Theory to Practice. He has previously also taught the LLB module Tort Law.

Dr Gur is the Law Department’s Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and he also sits on the UK branch Executive Committee of the International Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR). In addition, he is a member of the Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society and 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 jurisprudence, legal or political theory, and other areas of legal research where the proposed project substantially involves legal theory.

Undergraduate Teaching

  • LAW6021 Jurisprudence and Legal Theory

Postgraduate Teaching

  • SOLM288 Common Law from Theory to Practice

Teaching accreditation: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research

Dr Gur conducts research into theoretical and applied questions at the foundation of law and authority. One of his primary research themes 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). In addition, he has written about topics such as political obligation, judicial decision-making, and the moral implications of the rule of law. 

Dr Gur’s work draws on resources from a range of disciplines, including jurisprudence, political and moral theory, and social sciences.

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

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 jurisprudence, legal or political theory, and other areas of legal research where the proposed project substantially involves legal theory.

Public Engagement

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