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Personal Statement
Dr Lynsey Mitchell is an early career researcher and lecturer in law. She joined Strathclyde Law School in 2022. Previously she was a lecturer at Abertay University (2018-2022) where she taught EU law, Law of Evidence, Human Rights, and Gender, Sexuality and the Law. Prior to that she was a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University (2017-2018) where she taught Human Rights Law at undergraduate and postgraduate level and Public Law on the PGDL. She was also the programme leader for the International Law LLM.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the LEX Gender, Sexuality and Law Network and the review editor of the Journal of Social Change.
Research Interests
Dr Mitchell's research interests straddle critical approaches to human rights law, women’s rights, reproductive rights, feminist legal theory, women and conflict, and law and literature. Her research explores how narratives of women are constructed in law and explores the 'dark side' of human rights.
She is involved in individual and collaborative projects that will contribute to feminist understandings of women's rights in international law/international human rights law and how the language of human rights has been utilised by those who violate rights.
She is the PI on a funded project 'Mainstreaming Women's Rights' that is exploring how human rights law is taught in law schools and looks specifically at whether content on reproductive rights is included. She is also researching the narrative construction of the Syrian conflict in UK Parliamentary debates. She is interested in the construction of conflict and rescue in public consciousness and explores how this can impact on our understanding and application of international human rights law.
Her work on reading narratives of war through fairy tales has been published in the Liverpool Law Review and her recent article published in Law and Humanities explores the narrativisation of war by tracing parallels with international law and Game of Thrones.
She welcomes applications from perspective PhD candidates in the area of women’s 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
Law and literature
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):
External positions
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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Projects
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Decriminalisation of Abortion in Scotland
3/04/23 → 3/07/23
Project: Knowledge Exchange (Services/Consultancy)
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Commissioned Report on the Decriminalisation of Abortion
1/04/23 → 30/06/23
Project: Knowledge Exchange (Services/Consultancy)
Research output
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The Right to Cultural Life in Scotland
Mitchell, L., Webster, E. & Camps, D., 6 Mar 2023, Edinburgh. 32 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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The gender of international human rights law? Uncovering legal academics' views on teaching women's rights
Mitchell, L., 17 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) Teaching International Law. Sander, B. & Gauci, J-P. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon., 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Thesis
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How was the military intervention in Afghanistan legally justified?
Author: Mitchell, L., 11 Feb 2016Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Activities
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The Neverending Story: The Evolution of Manichean Narratives in Parliamentary debates
Lynsey Mitchell (Speaker)
10 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Can We Talk About Abortion Please
Lynsey Mitchell (Speaker)
5 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation