Dr Margaret Young joined the Faculty as Senior Lecturer in 2009. She was previously the William Charnley Research Fellow in Public International Law at Pembroke College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD and an LLM from the University of Cambridge and a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. Her graduate studies were supported by a number of awards, including the Gates Scholarship, the Commonwealth Scholarship and a scholarship from the Modern Law Review.
Dr Young's monograph, Trading Fish, Saving Fish: The Interaction between Regimes in International Law, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. She recently convened an international conference on Regime Interaction in International Law: Theoretical and Practical Challenges, which considered how international law copes with the fragmentation and diversification of norms and institutions. She has lectured in Cambridge’s LLM course on WTO law and is the Assistant Editor of the British Year Book of International Law. She has worked at the World Trade Organisation (Appellate Body Secretariat), the United Nations International Law Commission and at Greenpeace International, and is a former associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
Dr Young teaches Principles of Public Law in the JD, International Law and International Dispute Settlement in the LLB, and Principles of International Law in the LLM.
