Lynsey Mitchell

Dr

  • Senior Lecturer, Law
  • United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

Personal profile

Personal Statement

Dr Lynsey Mitchell teaches and researches in the area of human rights law and gender. She joined Strathclyde Law School in 2022. 

She is the book review editor for the feminist journal Feminist Legal Studies.

Research Interests

Dr Mitchell's research interests straddle critical approaches to human rights law, women’s rights, reproductive rights, and feminist legal theory. Her research explores how narratives of women are constructed in law. Her current focus is on the narratives around abortion law in Scotland.

She is involved in individual and collaborative projects that contribute to feminist understandings of women's rights in both domestic and international law. She is currently working on a number of projects that explore how reproductive rights are understood within human rights law.

She was the PI on a funded project 'Mainstreaming Women's Rights' that explored how human rights law is taught in law schools and looks specifically at whether content on reproductive rights is included. She was also awarded a SULI fellowship (2023-2024) for her research project 'Scotland's Abortion Law: Past Present and Future'.

She welcomes applications from perspective PhD candidates in the area of women’s rights, reproductive rights, international human rights law, critical approaches to human rights, gender, sexuality and the law, and feminist legal theory in general.

Expertise & Capabilities

Human rights 

Reproductive rights

Women and law

Gender, sexuality and law

Feminist legal theory

Women, conflict and law

Academic / Professional qualifications

PostGraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE (University of Strathclyde)

PhD (University of Strathclyde)

Diploma in Legal Practice (Glasgow Graduate School of Law)

LLM international Law (University of Glasgow)

LLB Law (University of Strathclyde)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

External positions

Scotland Commissioner, European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law

20 Oct 2023 → …

Deputy Examiner, University College London

1 May 2021 → …

Executive Committee, Abortion Rights Scotland

25 Jan 2021 → …

Keywords

  • human rights
  • women's rights
  • feminist legal theory
  • gender and sexuality
  • women and conflict
  • reproductive rights
  • law and literature

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