Dr Lynsey Mitchell
Senior Lecturer
Law
Area of Expertise
Human rights
Reproductive rights
Women and law
Gender, sexuality and law
Feminist legal theory
Women, conflict and law
Prize And Awards
- Strathclyde University Postgraduate Research Scholarship
- Recipient
- 1/1/2011
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)
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- Outdated, Harmful and Never in the Public Interest : The Urgent Need to Modernise Scotland's Abortion Law and Prevent Prosecutions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)
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.
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
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