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Dr Margaret Young

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Senior Lecturer

BA/LLB (Hons) (Melb), LLM, PhD (Cantab)

Languages spoken: English, Russian

 

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.  


Representative Publications

Trading Fish, Saving Fish: The Interaction between Regimes in International Law (CUP, 2010) (forthcoming)

'Fragmentation or Interaction: The WTO, Fisheries Subsidies and International Law' (2009) 8:4 World Trade Review 477

James Crawford and Margaret Young (eds), The Function of Law in the International Community: An Anniversary Symposium, (2008), Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Available at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/25th_anniversary/book.php.

'The WTO's use of relevant rules of international law: an analysis of the Biotech case' (2007) 56 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 907

'WTO undercurrents at the Court of Justice' (2005) 30 European Law Review 211

Book review: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and C.G. Weeramantry (eds) Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston), reviewed in (2007) 56 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 209

Book review: Mar Campins Eritja (ed) Sustainability Labelling and Certification (Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2004), reviewed in (2006) 18 Journal of Environmental Law 176


Areas of Expertise:

Teaching:
The Melbourne Law Masters:
  • Principles of International Law (2009)


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