Dr Mark Flear

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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 Society of Legal Scholars, the University Association for Contemporary European Studies and Health Action International. Mark joined the School of Law in 2005.

Mark represents the School of Law on the Northern Ireland Ethics Forum.  Mark is the lead organiser for the Annual School of Law Workshop 2008 ‘Biotechnology, European Law and Citizens’.  During the summer of 2008 Mark will be a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.  Whilst there Mark will carry 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, primarily for field research in London and Brussels where he will carry out discussions with EU institution and agency representatives and civil society actors.


Teaching

Undergraduate:

 

Research

EU law:EU constitutionalism and governance, EU trade law, EU social law and policy, particularly in the area of health care. Constructivist and sociological institutionalist streams of Europeanisation theory and governmentality.

Selected Publications

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

Book Review: De Búrca, G. and Scott, J., Eds, Law and New Governance in the EU and the US, Hart, Oxford, 2006, (2007) 44 CMLRev 1822.

Book Review:Dougan, M. and Spaventa, E., Eds, Social Welfare and EU Law, Hart, Oxford, 2005, (2006) 43 CMLRev 906.

Annotation: Case C-385/99 Müller-Fauré and van Riet , Judgment of the Court of 13 May 2003 , (2004) 41 CMLRev 209.

Administration

  • Representative for the School of Law on the AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Research Training Programme (organised by the University of Nottingham and involving several other leading law schools) 2006-present
  • Member of the School of Law Ethics Committee