Dr Isra Black (Associate Professor)

Bio:

Isra Black is Associate Professor in Law in the Faculty of Laws, UCL. Isra’s expertise lies at the intersection of health law and philosophy. Isra’s work considers how the substantive law that governs health (eg the law of medical treatment, the regulation of assisted death, the distribution of health resources) is determined in value pluralist, democratic societies.

Isra’s work has been published in leading generalist and specialist law and ethics journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Law Quarterly Review, the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Isra is a contributor to leading anthologies on health law and is co-editor of the Proceedings of the British Academy Volume, Consenting Children (2025).

Isra’s current projects include an examination of judicial and parliamentary consideration of assisted death in England and Wales through the lens of deliberative democratic theory.

Representative publications: 

Isra Black, Lisa Forsberg and Anthony Skelton, ‘Transformative Choice and Decision-Making Capacity’ (2023) 139(Oct) Law Quarterly Review 654

Isra Black, ‘Refusing Life-Prolonging Medical Treatment and the ECHR’ (2018) 38(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 299

Isra Black and Lisa Forsberg, ‘What Criminal Law Theory Teaches Us about the Realm of Health Law’ in A Krajewska and J McHale (eds) Re-Imagining Health Law (Edward Elgar 2025)