Staff profile
Jordan Buck
Senior Tutor in Law
LLB MJur AFHEA AIoL
| Affiliation |
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| Senior Tutor in Law in the Durham Law School |
| PhD candidate in the Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) |
Biography
I am a PhD candidate at Durham Law School, for which I am very grateful to be funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the Northern Bridge Consortium. I am also the Senior Tutor in Law, responsible for providing pedagogical guidance and professional development support to the department's part-time tutors. I have previously completed a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Master of Jurisprudence (MJur) at Durham, and I hold AFHEA and AIoL status.
At present, I teach on the third-year LLB Law and Medicine module. I have previously taught the first-year (core) LLB Tort Law module and acted as a teaching assistant on the LLM Frontiers in Biolaw and Global Environmental Law modules. Since the summer of 2023, I have been a co-convenor of the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS), a position I also held in the 2021-22 academic year.
Current Research
My PhD research provides a comparative analysis of the patient-centric approach to end-of-life decision-making for patients lacking capacity, viewed through the lens of human dignity. I explore the extensive German dignity jurisprudence and compares it to the more nascent dignity jurisprudence in England and Wales, interrogating the role and impact of the protection of human dignity within the end-of-life context. Specifically, I consider how human dignity might provide the basis for consistent, patient-centric decision-making under s 4 Mental Capacity Act 2005 by setting the best interests approach into comparison with the German presumed will frameworks.
I am very fortunate to be supervised by Dr Sam Halliday and Professor Emma Cave.
Office Hours
My office hours for the 2023-24 academic year were from 09:00-10:00 on term-time Fridays in PCL 181. Following the conclusion of the teaching year, office hours are no longer running. I will confirm my hours for the 2024-25 academic year in October.
No appointment is necessary, but I encourage students with more complex or extensive queries to email them to me in advance. Online (Teams) meetings are available during the hour by request.