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Dr Mark Flear
Lecturer
Contact Details
Email address m.flear@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3489
Room 28.202, 28 University Square
Degrees
BA (Hons) Law and Politics, University of Lincoln
LLM (Joint Masters) European Law, University of Nottingham and Universiteit Maastricht
PhD, University of Nottingham
Biography
Mark completed his undergraduate studies in law and politics with First Class Honours at the University of Lincoln in 2000. After a year of work and travel, Mark returned to education and completed an LLM (Joint Masters) in European Law at the University of Nottingham and the University of Maastricht in 2002, with funding being awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In the summer of 2002, Mark studied European Union law at the Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence. In 2002 Mark began his PhD at the University of Nottingham, with funding again being awarded by the AHRC. The thesis uses a constructivist or sociological institutionalist perspective to determine whether the free movement of persons (especially the freedom of movement for patients) in European Community law causes change in health care systems. The thesis was completed and awarded in 2006. During his time at Nottingham, Mark taught EU Constitutional Law and EC Trade Law.
Mark is a member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies and Health Action International. Mark joined the School of Law in 2005. During the summer of 2008 Mark was a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Whilst there Mark carried out research for his project entitled ‘EU Governance in AIDS, Cancer and Obesity: Governmentality, Citizenship and Polity’. The British Academy has awarded Mark funding for this project. The project also involved research interviews withwith EU institution and agency representatives and civil society actors in London and Brussels.
Mark worked with Dr Sara Ramshaw to organise the Annual School of Law Workshop 2008 ‘Biotechnology, European Law and Citizens’ (the papers for which were published as ‘New Technologies, European Law and Citizens'), and he is the principal investigator for the Economic and Social Research Council sponsored research series ‘ European Law and New Health Technologies’ as well as the UACES sponsored ‘A Symposium with Professor Roger Brownsword: Super-stewardship in the Context of Public Health’ .
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- EU Substantive Law (Level 3) (Convener)
- European Constitutional Law (Level 1)
- Foundations of European Community Law (Level 2) (Convener)
- Internal Market Law (Level 1 and 2) (Convener Level 2)
- Legal Theory
Research
EU law:EU constitutionalism and governance, EU trade law, EU social law and policy, particularly in the area of health care. EU governance of public health, including pandemic influenza preparedness planning. Constructivist and sociological institutionalist streams of Europeanisation theory and governmentality.
Selected Publications
‘The Open Method of Coordination on Health Care After the Lisbon Strategy II: Towards a Neoliberal Framing?’, (2009)13(1) European Integration online Papers (Special Issue)
View online at: http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2009-012a.htm
‘New Technologies, European Law and Citizens’, (2009) 16(1) MJ (Special Issue), edited with Dr Sara Ramshaw.
‘Editorial: An Introduction to ‘New Technologies, European Law and Citizens’’, (2009) 16(1) MJ (Special Issue) 3-14.
‘The EU’s Biopolitical Governance of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products’, (2009) 16(1) MJ (Special Issue) 113-137.
‘‘Together for Health’? How EU Governance of Health Undermines Active Biological Citizenship’, (2008) 26(3) WisIntLJ (Special Issue) 868-907.
‘Developing Euro-biocitizens through Migration for Healthcare Services’, (2007) 14(3) MJ (Special Issue) 239.
Annotation: Case C-385/99 Müller-Fauré and van Riet , Judgment of the Court of 13 May 2003 , (2004) 41 CMLRev 209.
Administration
- Health and Safety Officer / Disability Officer (2009-present)
- Member of the Ethics Committee
- Member of the Undergraduate Committee
