Reflections on Law and Impact in the Light of Brexit

Dougan, Michael; O’Brien, Charlotte

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“…It is an ideal site for exploring the power relations, different political and ideological agendas, and structures of identity and exclusion that underpin the law. It is an opportunity to help students combat narratives of legal neutrality and topics like Brexit are a chance to engage in discussion on the importance, and even just the existence, of truth (Dougan and O'Brien, 2019). I have suggested that contextual pedagogy can help mitigate three risks courted; by traditional EU law teaching through redesigning the curriculum around a key, normative question and a radical, ruthless, selection of content to go for more depth and less breadth, so we can avoid excessive positivism, whereby students are expected to accept the law is what it is, because we are cramming them full of it.…”

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Bringing EU law back down to Earth

O’Brien

2022

International Journal of Law in Context

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Traditional approaches to teaching EU law can seem almost deliberately alienating; there is a lot of incomprehensible stodge that students are told they ‘just have to get through’ before they can really begin. So courses start with memorising technical terminology, institutional facts and then some principles that, without context, can just seem like more jargon. By the time they move on to case-law and legislation, the idea that these things are useful domestic tools has long since vanished. Instead, a contextual approach mitigates a trio of risks that have beset traditional EU law teaching – the risks of excessive positivism, excessive abstraction and excessive black-letter lawyering. Context requires critical engagement with, rather than simple absorption of, law; it makes the law accessible and applicable; and it involves socio-legal and interdisciplinary methods and materials. It is, of course, risky in different ways – but we should have a greater appetite for risks related not to cognitive stagnation, but to intellectual challenge.

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Bringing EU law back down to Earth

O’Brien

2022

International Journal of Law in Context

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“…50 Moreover, while social media can be a hostile environment for any researcher seeking to disseminate 'real world' research, it has proved especially so for women and ethnic minority scholars. 51 Though arguably all scholars should want to develop a better understanding of the policy or practice contexts of their research, the impact agenda elides the unequal relationships between scholars and stakeholders who 'gate keep' access to their environments. Academics may find themselves demonstrating 'deference to power' in exchange for access, often by engaging in functionalist research, which risks either 'inadvertently or deliberately sustaining dominant' and, we would suggest, masculinist, ways of producing and applying knowledge.…”

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The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’

Catignani

Basham

2021

Rev. Int. Stud.

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This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional’ for political, military, economic, and social advancement. As feminist interpretive researchers examining an institution that prizes masculinist and functionalist methodologies, instrumentalised knowledge production, and highly formalised ethics approval processes, we faced multiple challenges to how we were able to conduct our research, who we were able to access, and what we were able to say. We show how military assumptions about what constitutes proper ‘research’, bolstered by knowledge economy logics, reinforces gendered power relationships that keep hidden the significant roles women (in our case, the partners/spouses of reservists) play in state security. Accordingly, we argue that the functionalist and masculinist logics interpretive researchers face in the age of the knowledge economy help more in sustaining orthodox modes of knowledge production about militaries and security, and in reinforcing gendered power relations, than they do in advancing knowledge.

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Reflections on Law and Impact in the Light of Brexit

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Bringing EU law back down to Earth

Bringing EU law back down to Earth

The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’

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