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      Dr Joelle Grogan

      LLB, BCL, DPhil, SFHEA
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Law
      SCHOOL: Law
      DEPARTMENT: Law
      EMAIL: J.Grogan@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Dr Joelle Grogan is a Senior Lecturer in law at Middlesex University London. Her primary areas of research are UK and European Union public law, with an expertise on the rule of law. Her current focus is Brexit, and legal measures taken in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
         
        Joelle was the Convenor of 'COVID-19 and States of Emergency' Symposium, jointly hosted by the Verfassungblog and Democracy Reporting International under the re:constitution program supported by Stiftung Mercator. Over the course of 50 days, the Symposium published 82 contributions from over 100 scholars worldwide analysing states of emergency and the use of emergency powers in response to the COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. The Symposium published reports on 74 countries, analysing legal measures which impact nearly 80% of global population. The country reports were accompanied by eight commentaries on democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in times of COVID-19 and are accessible online.
         
        Joelle has been involved in large-scale and international research projects at Middlesex University, and Oxford University. She is part of the H2020 RECONNECT project, ‘Reconciling Europe with it Citizens through Democracy and the Rule of Law’, led by the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, and involving 18 international partners. With Professor Laurent Pech, she is co-investigator for Work Package 7 on the principle of the rule of law. Working papers on the 'Meaning and Scope of the EU Rule of Law', and 'Unity and Diversity in National Understandings of the Rule of Law in the EU' co-authored with Laurent Pech and Work Package 7 collaborators are available online.
         
        Prior to her appointment at Middlesex University, she graduated with Distinction from the BCL at Oxford University. She completed her doctoral research on the rule of law in the European Union at Oriel College, Oxford University. Joelle completed her undergraduate degree in law at Trinity College Dublin, where was elected a Scholar ofthe university.

        Joelle is the creator of Sticky Tricky Law, an online legal education project aiming to make complex legal concepts related to Brexit, the EU and the UK legal system accessible and understandable to the wider public. Follow it on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

         

         


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      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Joelle Grogan is the Module Leader for EU Law courses, including the LLB Modules European Union Law and Advanced Issues in EU Law and Politics; the BA EU Internal Market Law, and the LLM EU Law in Action. She additionally has taught on the LLB Criminal law and Equality law courses.

        Joelle created and runs StickyTrickyLaw, an online education project on Facebook and Twitter, making complex concepts in law (particularly in the context of Brexit) accessible to a wide audience through humorous, hand-drawn sticky notes accompanied by simplified explanations.

        With Lughaidh Kerin, Joelle piloted Bridge the Gap at Middlesex University in Autumn 2017. Bridge the Gap is a transformative programme designed to bridge the skills gap between secondary level and University. Students develop a range of hard and soft skills critical to addressing the difficulties they experience.

        Joelle based the design of BTG on her experiences while working for access to education schemes, and as a graduate tutor and admissions interviewer at Oxford University. The course advances critical-thinking and creative problem-solving skills, as well as addressing issues relating to stress-management, conflict resolution, and self-confidence. The course prepares students to work independently and with their peers for a successful three years at University and beyond. This scheme continued in September 2018.

         

         

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Publication Feed

        States of emergency [Blog post]

        Grogan, Joelle (2020) States of emergency [Blog post]. Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, Berlin, Germany.

        Right restriction or restricting rights? The UK acts to address COVID-19 [Blog post]

        Grogan, Joelle (2020) Right restriction or restricting rights? The UK acts to address COVID-19 [Blog post]. Verfassungsblog - On Matters Constitutional, Berlin, Germany.

        The only certainty is uncertainty - risk to rights in the Brexit process

        Grogan, Joelle (2019) The only certainty is uncertainty - risk to rights in the Brexit process. In: On Brexit: Law, Justices and Injustices. Fahey, Elaine and Ahmed, Tawhida , eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 65-80. ISBN 9781789903003

        Upholding the rule of law in the EU: what role for the EUFRA

        Pech, Laurent and Grogan, Joelle (2019) Upholding the rule of law in the EU: what role for the EUFRA. In: Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy: The Role of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Byrne, Rosemary and Entzinger, Han , eds. Routledge Research in Human Rights Law . Routledge Taylor & Francis, London, UK. ISBN 9780367186999 (Accepted/In press)

        Rights and remedies at risk: Implications of the Brexit process on the future of rights in the UK

        Grogan, Joelle (2019) Rights and remedies at risk: Implications of the Brexit process on the future of rights in the UK. Public Law , 2019 (Oct). pp. 683-702. ISSN 0033-3565

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