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Overview

Jordan Buck

Senior Tutor in Law

LLB MJur FRSPH AFHEA AIoL

Affiliations
Affiliation
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 also act as Senior Tutor in Law and as a representative for the department's PGR students. I have been at Durham since 2017, starting with my Bachelor of Laws (LLB) before continuing onto a Master of Jurisprudence (MJur), which led me onto my current doctoral studies.

At present, I teach on LLB Law and Medicine module, having previously taught on the LLB Tort Law module and acted as a teaching assistant on the LLM Frontiers in Biolaw and Global Environmental Law modules. I was a co-convenor of the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) in the 2021-22 and 2023-24 academic years, before stepping down to focus on my thesis.

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 role and impact of the protection of human dignity within the end-of-life context under English and German law. 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.

Appointments aren't usually necessary, but I might ask you to book a specific time with me during busy periods. I encourage students with more complex or extensive queries to email them to me in advance of my office hour to enable me to give more helpful responses. Online (Teams) meetings are available during the hour by request for any reason at all. I may move the entire hour online if a majority of attendees are virtual.