Dr Lynsey Mitchell

Publications

Weaponising human rights through empty rhetoric and imperialist narratives : British discourse on reproductive rights and gender equality

Mitchell Lynsey

62 (2024)

Courting controversy : the use of trigger warnings in teaching human rights law

Mitchell Lynsey

Law Teacher (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2024.2313374

R (on the application of A and B) v Secretary of State for Health [2017] UKSC 41 : what is the cost of reproductive rights?

Mitchell Lynsey

Queer Judgments Project (2024) (2024)

Weaponising human rights discourse through empty rhetoric and imperialist narratives : The UK Government’s commitment to abortion

Mitchell Lynsey

(2023)

International law as shibboleth : the continued appeal of heroic narratives in support of military intervention

Mitchell Lynsey

London Review of International Law Vol 11, pp. 481-510 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrad019

Decriminalising abortion in Scotland : why the debate?

Mitchell Lynsey

(2023)

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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 currently working on a number of projects that explore how reproductive rights are understood within human rights law.

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 has also been awarded a SULI fellowship for her research project 'Scotland's Abortion Law: Past Present and Future'.

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.

Professional Activities

Update on Legal Framework on Abortion in Scotland

Invited speaker

20/4/2024

A Meeting to Discuss Abortion Law Reform

Participant

19/3/2024

The Criminalisation of Abortion: UK Perspectives

Invited speaker

2/3/2024

Abortion Safe Access Zones Advisory Meeting

Advisor

31/1/2024

Advising and discussing abortion law reform (decriminalisation)

Advisor

30/1/2024

Abortion Law in Scotland

Speaker

16/1/2024

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Projects

Scotland’s Abortion Laws: Understanding the Past to Inform Future Reform

Mitchell, Lynsey (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024

Decriminalisation of Abortion in Scotland

Mitchell, Lynsey (Principal Investigator)

03-Jan-2023 - 03-Jan-2023

Commissioned Report on the Decriminalisation of Abortion

Mitchell, Lynsey (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023

Mainstreaming Women's Rights

Mitchell, Lynsey (Principal Investigator)

£1307 grant awarded by Society of Legal Scholars

01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020

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