Noam Gur
Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law, Lincoln College
Noam Gur is a Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College. Before joining Lincoln he read law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he graduated with a BCL, MPhil and DPhil. He obtained his first degree in law (LLB) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He teaches jurisprudence and tort law, and his research interests are in jurisprudence. His current research focuses on topics such as legal normativity, law's operation in practical reason, the obligation to obey the law, the concept of authority and its sources of legitimacy. He is currently completing a book on law and practical reason, which is due to be published with Oxford University Press in 2013.
Publications
Journal Articles
N Gur, 'Normative Weighing and Legal Guidance of Conduct' (2012) 25 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (forthcoming)
N Gur, 'Are Legal Rules Content-Independent Reasons?' (2011) 5 Problema 175
N Gur, 'Legal Directives in the Realm of Practical Reason: A Challenge to the Pre-emption Thesis' (2007) 52 American Journal of Jurisprudence 159
Books
N Gur, Legal Directives in Practical Reason (Oxford University Press 2013) (forthcoming)

