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Dr Mitchell Lennan

Dr Mitchell Lennan
Dr Mitchell Lennan
Dr Mitchell Lennan

BSc (Hons), MSc, LLM, PhD

Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
mitchell.lennan@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272852
School/Department
School of Law





Biography

Dr Mitchell Lennan joined the Law School as a Lecturer in December 2022. He is Co-Director of the Aberdeen University Centre of Energy Law (AUCEL).

Mitchell teaches and researches Public International Law, focusing on Law of the Sea, Environmental Law and Human Rights. He is interested in the international regulation of fisheries and marine biodiversity in the context of global environmental change. He has also contributed to several consultancies in International Environmental Law for the United Nations Environment Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Trade Organization, national governments, and non-governmental organisations.

He holds degrees from the Universities of Glasgow, Southampton, Edinburgh and Strathclyde. His PhD focused on the international legal obligation to adapt fisheries conservation and management measures to the effects of climate change.

Mitchell has participated in international dispute settlement, serving as Assistant to Counsel for the Republic of Maldives in the Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius/Maldives) before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in 2020. He also interned in the ITLOS Legal Office in 2018.

He was previously a Researcher with the UKRI GCRF One Ocean Hub, where he worked on a range of inter- and transdisciplinary projects on inclusive ocean governance. He has held positions at the University of Strathclyde and City St George's, University of London. He is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law and regularly represents the University at United Nations climate meetings.

Mitchell is is the Programme Lead for taught masters programmes under the Energy & Environment theme.

Mitchell welcomes enquiries regarding potential PhD projects related to his areas of research.

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) Marine and Freshwater Biology 
    2013 - University of Glasgow 
  • MSc Marine Science, Policy & Law 
    2014 - University of Southampton 
  • LLM Global Environment and Climate Change Law 
    2017 - University of Edinburgh 
  • PGCert Researcher Professional Development 
    2022 - University of Strathclyde 
  • PhD International Environmental Law 
    2022 - University of Strathclyde 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Co-Director, Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law

Member, Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law

Member, Law School Research Committee

Affiliate Researcher, Just Transition Lab

Member (LGBTQ+ Inclusion) School of Law Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

External Memberships

Member,  

Member (non-solicitor), The Law Society of Scotland's

 

 

Latest Publications

  • Lack of capacity: the not-so-hidden factor undermining fisheries governance

    Haas, B., Aqorau, T., Lennan, M.
    Fish and Fisheries
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • OCEAN ACIDIFICATION & FOOD SECURITY

    Harrould-Kolieb, E., Kostas, I., Frosch, A., Turner, J., Dressler, I., Strong, A., Lennan, M.
    4 pages.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions
    • [ONLINE]
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Untangled: Workshop Report

    Lennan, M., Duffy, P.
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Reports

  • International Fisheries and Climate Change Adaptation

    Lennan, M.
    The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 817-826
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Response to the Call for Views on the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill by the Scottish Parliament’s Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

    Ferguson, E., Lennan, M., Moran, C. F.
    Edinburgh: Scottish Parliament (Webpage). 5 pages.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE]

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Prizes and Awards

Winner, Aldo Leucci and Ortensio Degli Atti Award (2nd edition) for the article ‘Leveraging International Fisheries Law for Maritime Security in the Anthropocene: Addressing Conflicts in Fisheries' together with Julia Nakamura and Kyle Fawkes in ACSOMARE Yearbook on the Law of the Sea ().

Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Law.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Law

  • Supervising
  • Accepting PhDs
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Research Specialisms

  • Public International Law
  • European Union Law
  • Law

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Teaching

Courses

Non-course Teaching Responsibilities

Mitchell acts as personal tutor for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Law School. 

He has given guest lectures at the Universities of Glasgow, Nottingham, Tromsø, and California, Berkeley. 

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