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Isra Black

Phd candidate - King's College London
United Kingdom

Law, Bioethics - Medical ethics

02.07.2015-28.08.2015

Children’s Consent to Medical Treatment: A Philosophical and Comparative Legal Study
• To apply philosophical accounts of children’s welfare to the legal issue of children’s consent to medical treatment. • To investigate the relation between decision-making capacity, values, and voluntariness, in order to evaluate court practice in respect of children’s consent to medical treatment. • To develop a rigorous account of the circumstances in which children’s consent to medical treatment should be upheld or overridden. • To conduct comparative investigation of the legal regimes for children’s consent in England and Wales, and Canada. • To test the plausibility of philosophical accounts of children’s welfare in light of the outcomes predicted in the children’s consent setting. • To write and submit two journal articles from the project during the stay at Brocher, and a further article after we leave.
02.07.2013-21.09.2013

Better Off Dead? Best Interests Assisted Dying

Medical Law and Ethics Isra is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London. Prior to taking up his doctoral studies, Isra read English and French Law at King's College London and the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, before completing the MA Medical Ethics and Law at King's College London. Isra's research interests relate to Law and Ethics at the end of life.

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