About Professor Elizabeth Mytton
Professor Elizabeth Mytton is Course Leader and Lecturer in Criminal Law at New College of the Humanities.
Qualifications
Doctor of Education, University of Southampton (2001)
Master of Laws, University of Southampton (1992)
BA (Hons), CNAA (now Bournemouth University)
Professional Affiliations
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Fellow, Chartered Management Institute
Visiting Fellow, Bournemouth University
Emeritus Professor, Southampton Solent University
Professor Elizabeth Mytton's Research
The principal focus of Elizabeth’s research activity lies within professional engagement and developments in legal education. A notable highlight was being selected by the British Council, from a highly competitive field of legal scholars, to advise the Ministers of Education and Justice in the former Soviet State of Georgia on how to establish a system of Legal Education. The pedagogic impact of this work is published.
As Professor of Legal Education, she held a range of executive positions at national level with the professional bodies, law associations, and with UK law schools. She was elected by the Association of Law Teachers (ALT) and Committee of Heads of University Law Schools (CHULS) as academic advisor to the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) which published its findings in June 2013. This forms a key part of a comprehensive review of legal education and training.
She is frequently invited to sit as a panel member for the re(validation) of law programmes in university law schools. Having worked directly with the LETR, she has introduced a range of innovative teaching techniques into LLB course developments to reflect prevailing trends in law teaching.
Whilst Head of Law, she was invited to advise the Office of the Dean of International Business Law at the China University of Law and Political Science in Beijing. She met with senior academics and Communist Party officials to speak on the subject of the common law jurisdiction of law and comparisons with a Communist system. This was a highly prestigious invitation by the University in Beijing. Whilst in China, she presented at a number of institutions, commissioned by the British Council, for Chinese students intending to study in the UK.
Publications
Mytton, E. (2016) The EdD Experience in The Legal Academic’s handbook (ed.) Guss, J. Ashworth, C. (Palgrave Macmillan)
Mytton, E., Gale.C, (2012) Prevailing Issues in Legal Education International Journal of Law and Management
Mytton, E. (2012) Assessment: exploring a new discourse in Dialogue, (Solent University).
Professor Elizabeth Mytton's Teaching
Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Law of Torts, University of Brighton, 2017-2018
Criminal law, NCH 2016-2017
(Solent University) Criminal Law, Law & Society, Law & the Individual, Legal Skills, Dissertation supervision, 2010-2016
(Bournemouth University) Dissertation supervision, Criminal law, 2008-2010
Professional activity
Witness Support, Bournemouth Crown Court, Poole Magistrates Court, 2018 – date
Academic advisor to the professional and academic law associations (post Legal Education and Training Review), 2012 – 2014
Appointed academic advisor to the Legal Education and Training Review, 2011 – 2013
Attended: Association of Law Teachers conference (University of Portsmouth), 2017
Member, Association of Law Teachers, 2011 – 2017
Presented: Developments in Professional Education. (Solent University), 2012
Presented: Legal Education and Training Review: an update for the Association of Law Teachers conference (Oxford), 2012
Presented: Legal Education and Training Review: an update for the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools (CHULS), 2012
Leader, Southampton City Law Network, 2011- 2016
Co-opted executive member. Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, 2011- 2015
Mytton, E. Legal Education and Training Review: an update for CHULS. (Warwick), 2012
Mytton, E. Gale, C. Prevailing Issues in Legal Education. Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) (Cambridge), 2011
Mytton, E Assessment: exploring a new discourse within an institutional framework (Solent University), 2011
Holmes, A., Mytton. E. UK Law Schools : post Browne and post CSR, CHULS (Warwick), 2011
Mytton, E . Wynell-Sutherland, P. Doing assessment differently: developing a new discourse. Learning in Law Conference (Warwick), 2011
Mytton, E., Sykes, R., Maguire, C., Harmonising discrimination law: understanding ‘reasonable adjustment’ in assessing law students (Association of Law Teachers (Cambridge), 2010
Mytton, E. Doing Assessment Differently: Balancing Compliance with Regulation. SLS (Warwick), 2009
Mytton, E. Professional Regulation of Law Degrees and Assessment Matters (Warwick), 2009
Mytton, E. The place of the law school in the university, CHULS (Warwick), 2008
Academic advisor to the professional and academic law associations (post Legal Education and Training Review), 2012 – 2014
SLS invited delegate Legal Education and Training Symposium (Manchester), 2012
Co-chair, Legal Education and Training Review conference (SLS) IALS, London 2012
Advisor to the steering group of the Legal Education and Training Review, 2011-2012
Invited speaker, Association of Law Teachers annual conference, Cardiff, 2011
Consultation with the Legal Standards Board Chief Executive, senior lawyers and senior law academics on ‘The Future of Legal Education’ symposium. Inns of Court, 2011
Consultation with the Chief Executive and the Head of Education and Training at the Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority (SRA) on the ‘Legal Education Review’, 2012
Consultation with the Joint Academic Stage Board on condonation, compensation, and collaborative provision, 2011
Consultation with Director of the Solicitors Regulatory Authority on change in legal education, 2011
Correspondence on behalf of CHULS with Secretary of State David Willetts regarding the Browne review and the impact on humanities and social science, 2010
Consultation with HEFCE on current issues: Future of HEA subject centre for Law, 2010
REF sub-panel for Law, Solent University, 2010
Chaired (CHULS) Executive to formulate policy on: Current legal education priorities including the REF. Access to the professions: Lord Neuberger’s proposals on widening access, 2010
Designed, chaired and presented a 2 day national conference for CHULS attended by 60 Heads of Law. ‘The future of UK law schools’, 2010
As Chair of CHULS, invited to attend a Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) event with senior judiciary to advise upon and discuss current issues in legal education, 2010
Panel member of UK Centre for Legal Education Advisory Board to consult and advise on the future of HEA subject centres, 2010
Consultation with Legal Services Board on policy and strategy on diversity, the Neuberger agenda, with David Lammy MP then Minister for Business Innovation and Skills, 2009 – 2010
Chair, Committee of Heads of University Law Schools (CHULS), 2009 – 2011
Vice Chair, of CHULS, 2006 – 2008
Council, Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), 2006 – 2009