David Enoch

David Enoch was born in 1971 in England

David Enoch was born in England in 1971. He moved to Israel with his parents as a small child. He is married with 2 children and divides his life between Tel Aviv and Oxford.

In 1993 he completed degrees in philosophy and law at Tel Aviv University through the academic reserve program. After his army service he clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Dorit Beinisch. He earned a PhD in philosophy from New York University in 2003.

He teaches in the philosophy department and the law faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and co-directs its Center for Moral and Political Philosophy. He became a full professor in 2011, and in 2023 he was appointed to the chair in the philosophy of law at Oxford. He founded the Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies with Professor Alon Harel.

In metaethics he defends robust realism, the view that objective moral truths exist. In political philosophy he criticizes Rawlsian liberalism and develops another form of liberalism. In 2023 he joined the Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy, formed in response to the reforms of Israel's 37th government.