Dr Justine Mitchell

Justine’s research encompasses intellectual property law (English, EU & International), EU law and media law. She particularly focuses on copyright (English, EU & International), defamation, breach of confidence/privacy and the WTO. Justine has varied teaching experience at foundation, undergraduate, GDL, LPC and LLM levels. She supervises projects, and dissertations and is the second supervisor on a current PhD. Justine is the Year 2 and Year 3 Course Leader for the undergraduate law programmes and is the current Module Leader for intellectual property law on the LPC and LLM postgraduate degree courses.

After a long-standing career in business, Justine came here to read law. After graduation, she read the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall). She returned here to begin her teaching career and commence her PhD under the supervision of Susan Fletcher (Director of Studies) and Dr Mohammed el-Said (second supervisor). During her PhD, she also completed her professional diploma for the Bar Professional Training Course at City Law School as a Duke and Duchess of Cambridge scholar, awarded from Middle Temple. Justine has a variety of teaching experience including: land, property law and practice, intellectual property, media, lawyers’ skills, legal systems, public law, interviewing skills, wills & probate, civil litigation, drafting, advocacy, law for entrepreneurs and commercial dispute resolution. Justine is also a CMC accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator and offers mediation training to internal and external delegates as part of a team. Stemming from a business background, Justine’s research largely relates to property rights (copyright, trade marks, patents, trade secrets, passing off) and UK-EU/ UK-WTO trading relations. She is available for supervision in these core areas, and provides advice on mini-pupillages, Bar Course applications and Bar Scholarship applications for aspiring barristers. She is currently learning Modern Standard Arabic (beginner’s) and is trying to improve her French.