Ira Chadha-Sridhar

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I am the Hatton-WYNG Junior Research Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. My research spans moral philosophy, tort law, medical ethics and law, private law theory, and general jurisprudence.

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I specialise in the feminist ethics of care — an approach in moral philosophy that emerged in the early 1980s from feminist critiques of mid-twentieth century moral psychology and philosophy. Care ethicists are (roughly) interested in understanding what it means to care and unpacking the concept's normative significance.

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I work along two tracks: as a philosopher of care, I try to clarify the concept of care itself and some of the foundational tenets of the care ethical approach; and as a legal scholar, I bring these philosophical findings to bear in doctrinal areas where the concept carries particular legal significance. I work primarily in the law of torts and medical law, with a focus on the site where they intersect: medical negligence. More broadly, I work in special and general jurisprudence — examining how the law uses the concept of care, and in turn, actively constructs it.

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My research agenda is perhaps most clearly exemplified in my first monograph, Care and the Mandate of Medical Law. The book is forthcoming with Oxford University Press as part of the Oxford Legal Philosophy series​

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At Cambridge, I teach Jurisprudence, The Law of Torts, and Family Law — papers that all inform my research and writing. I am Director of Studies at Hughes Hall.

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You can contact me at ic357@cam.ac.uk.​