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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
PGCHET, Queen's University Belfast

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 (with distinction overall) 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 was completed and awarded in 2006. During his time at Nottingham, Mark taught EU Constitutional Law and EC Trade Law.

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 with EU institution and agency representatives and civil society actors in London and Brussels.

Mark has led several research projects, all producing novel networks and published outputs. The projects include the first Annual School of Law Workshop 2008 ‘Biotechnology, European Law and Citizens’  the Economic and Social Research Council sponsored seminar series ‘ European Law and New Health Technologies’  and the UACES sponsored ‘A Symposium with Professor Roger Brownsword: Super-stewardship in the Context of Public Health’ . Mark is currently completing his monograph The Biopolitics of EU Public Health Governance: HIV/AIDS, Cancer and Pandemic Influenza (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2013 forthcoming). Mark presents his research through these academic events as well as conferences. In 2011 Mark was appointed a member of the Northern Ireland DNA Database Governance Board.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

  • EU Substantive Law (Level 3) (Coordinator; Lecturer; Tutor)
  • European Constitutional Law (Levels 1 and 2) (Lecturer; Tutor)
  • European Internal Market Law (Levels 1 and 2) (Coordinator Level 1; Lecturer; Tutor)
  • Foundations of European Community Law (Level 2) (Coordinator; Lecturer; Tutor)
  • Legal Theory (Level 3) (Lecturer; Tutor)
  • Medical Law and Ethics (Level 3) (Coordinator; Lecturer; Discussion Class Facilitator)
Taught Postgraduate:
  • European Constitutional Law (MLegSci) (Lecturer; Seminar Tutor)
  • European Internal Market Law (MLegSci) (Lecturer; Seminar Tutor)
  • Medical Law and Ethics (LLM Human Rights) (Coordinator; Seminar Tutor)

Research Postgraduate:

  • Masters dissertation Supervisor
  • PhD Supervisor (second supervisor for Sean Columb (Law); joint supervisor for Jennifer Goddard (Drama))

Research

Using interdisciplinary insights from law, regulatory theory, critical theory, sociology and science and technology studies, Mark examines the governance of life itself by law and regulation (often termed ‘biopolitics’). Mark’s work focuses on the European and global dimensions of two substantive areas: public health and new health technologies. A key focus of this research is public or citizen participation.

Selected Publications

Edited Collection

European Law and New Health Technologies (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013 forthcoming) (with Farrell, Hervey and Murphy (eds))

Edited Journals

‘Papers from ‘A Symposium with Professor Roger Brownsword: Super-stewardship in the Context of Public Health’’ (2011) 62(5) NILQ (Special Issue)

‘New Technologies, European Law and Citizens’, (2009) 16(1) MJ (Special Issue),  (edited with Dr Sara Ramshaw).

Book Chapters

‘The Defining Features of the European Union’s Approach to Regulating New Health Technologies’ in European Law and New Health Technologies (with Bache and Hervey)

 ‘European Law and New Health Technologies: The Research Agenda’ in European Law and New Health Technologies. (with Farrell, Hervey and Murphy)

‘A European Law of New Health Technologies?’ in European Law and New Health Technologies (with Farrell, Hervey and Murphy)

Articles

‘Regulatory or Regulating Publics? The European Union’s Regulation of Emerging Health Technologies and Citizen Participation’, (2012 forthcoming) (with Pickersgill)

‘‘Supra-stewardship’: A Tool for Citizen Participation in European Union Pandemic Preparedness Planning’, (2011) 62(5) NILQ 677

‘A Human Rights Perspective on Citizen Participation in the EU's Governance of New Technologies’, (2010) 10(4) Human Rights Law Review (Special Issue) 661 (with Vakulenko)

‘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). 

‘The EU’s Biopolitical Governance of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products’, (2009) 16(1) MJ (Special Issue) 113-137

‘Developing Euro-biocitizens through Migration for Healthcare Services’, (2007) 14(3) MJ (Special Issue) 239


Administration

  • Health and Safety Officer / Disability Officer (2009-present)
  • Member of the Ethics Committee
  • Member of the Undergraduate Committee
  • Member of the SSPC
  • Member of the School Probation Committee