Publications

R (on the application of A and B) v Secretary of State for Health (United Kingdom) : what is the cost of reproductive rights?

Mitchell Lynsey

Queer Judgments Project (2025) (2025)

What would a progressive abortion law look like in Scotland

Mitchell Lynsey

The Person in Scotland and the World: 40 Years of Private Law Reform
A seminar to honour the contribution to scholarship of Professor Kenneth McK. Norrie
(2024)

Women in the Strathclyde Law School 1964 - 2024 : Biographies and Reflections

Zahn Rebecca, Mitchell Lynsey

(2024)

The Neverending Story : Unpicking the Masterplot Justifying UK Military Intervention

Mitchell Lynsey

Legal Masterplots (2024) (2024)

The gender of international human rights law? : Uncovering legal academics' views on teaching women's rights

Mitchell Lynsey

Teaching International Law Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context (2024) (2024)

Outdated, Harmful and Never in the Public Interest : The Urgent Need to Modernise Scotland's Abortion Law and Prevent Prosecutions

Wood Jill, Murphy Catherine, Mitchell Lynsey, McPherson Rachel

(2024)

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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

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2025

Speaker

15/4/2025

Queer Judgments Project Book Launch

Participant

11/2/2025

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (Journal)

Peer reviewer

24/1/2025

Women in Law Project

Speaker

11/1/2025

GENius Journal of Legal Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Journal)

Peer reviewer

3/12/2024

Reproductive Justice or Reproductive Injustice: Can Human Rights Law Secure Abortion Access in Scotland?

Invited speaker

11/9/2024

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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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