Dr Edward Mitchell
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 876537
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Location
4SB.5.23, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
By appointment only. Please email edward.mitchell@essex.ac.uk for an appointment.
Profile
Biography
Edward Mitchell is a lecturer in law at Essex Law School and the Progress and Assessment Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Essex. Edward’s research interests span the following areas: planning law; land law; local government law; and contract law. In these fields, his focus is on how legal and contractual frameworks can impact decision-making. Edward also has research interests in legal education, particularly regarding student motivation and student perceptions of competence within, and their sense of control over, their learning experience. Edward is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Qualifications
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PhD University of Sheffield,
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LPC University of Sheffield,
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MA Law University of Sheffield,
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BA American Studies University of Sheffield,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Law and time
Compulsory purchase
Property development
Planning law
Conferences and presentations
Contracting in the public interest?
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2023-24, London, 14/12/2023
A duty to have "due regard"? Equality, Human Rights and Compulsory Purchase in England
Association of European Schools of Planning, 2019 Annual Congress, Venice, Italy, 11/7/2019
Compulsory Purchase, Conditional Legal Agreements and Urban Property Development in England and Wales
Association of European Schools of Planning, 2017 Annual Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 12/7/2017
Timely property development: can a date be unconditional on Friday 9 September 2016 at The New Legal Temporalities? Discipline and Resistance across Domains of Time at the University of Kent for the Regulating Time AHRC Network
Canterbury, United Kingdom, 2016
Lining Things Up or Making Things Up? Conditional Development Agreements and Urban Property Development on Friday 20 May 2016 at the Association of Law, Property, and Society Annual Meeting at Queens University Belfast
Belfast, United Kingdom, 2016
An instinct to conceal: urban property development and freedom of information requests on Tuesday 7 April 2016 at the SLSA Annual Conference at the University of Lancaster A time in-between: the temporal logics of private and public sector development agreements and urban retail property redevelopment schemes on Tuesday 31 March 2015 at the SLSA Annual Conference at the University of Warwick
Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2016
Taking time: the temporal logics of private and public sector development agreement and retail-led regeneration on Thursday 26 February 2015 at the Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights at the University of Thessaly
Volos, Greece, 2015
Developing Agreements? Private and Public Sector Development Agreements and Urban Regeneration on Saturday 7 June 2014 for the Seeing Like a City symposium at Queen Mary, University of London
London, United Kingdom, 2014
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Land Law (LW102)
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Public Law (LW103)
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Career Development Learning Part 1 (LW111)
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Land Law (LW303)
Publications
Journal articles (4)
Mitchell, E., (2023). Continuous assessment and legal education: how might a programme-level continuous assessment strategy be implemented and how might it affect student motivation?. The Law Teacher. 57 (3), 295-308
Mitchell, E., (2021). Compulsory Purchase and the State Redistribution of Land: A Study of Local Authority-Private Developer Contractual Behaviour. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law. 13 (1), 1-16
Mitchell, E., (2020). Planning, Property and Profit: The Use of Financial Viability Modelling in Urban Property Development. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 71 (1), 35-55
Mitchell, E., (2020). Climate change and nationally significant infrastructure projects: R (on the application of Plan B Earth) v Secretary of State for Transport. Environmental Law Review. 22 (2), 125-132
Book chapters (1)
Mitchell, E., (2022). Contracting affordable housing delivery? Residential property development, section 106 agreements and other contractual arrangements. In: Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously. Editors: Lee, M. and Abbot, C., . UCL Press. 207- 228. 9781800082892
Contact
Academic support hours:
By appointment only. Please email edward.mitchell@essex.ac.uk for an appointment.
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