Elad Uzan is a Departmental Lecturer at the Blavatnik School, as well as a member of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He completed his Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University and has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy and a Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College. He was recently awarded the American Philosophical Association’s Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship and will present the Baumgardt Memorial Lectures at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in 2025.
His research lies at the intersection of moral, political, and legal philosophy. He has written about a range of issues involving or related to harming, killing, and saving, as well as the moral constraints and legal limits on self-defence, theories of risk and aggregation, and ethical AI decision-making in the context of war.
Elad Uzan, 'Ending War and Risk' in Perpetual War and International Law: Legacies of the War on Terror, ed. Brianna Rosen (2024) Oxford University Press
Elad Uzan, 'Moral Hazard and Ending the War in Ukraine' in Ending Wars Justly: Theory and Applications, ed. David Chan (2024) Routledge
Elad Uzan, 'Moral Sunk Costs in War and Self-Defence' in The Philosophical Quarterly'71(2) (2021): 359–377. The paper won the Cegla Student Paper Prize.
Elad Uzan, 'Soldiers, Civilians, and in bello Proportionality: A Proposed Revision' The Monist 99(1) (2016): 87-96.