Dr Margaret Young joined the Faculty in 2009. She was previously the William Charnley Research Fellow in Public International Law at PembrokeCollege and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, where she also lectured in Cambridge's LLM course on WTO law. She has worked at the World Trade Organisation (Appellate Body Secretariat) and the United Nations International Law Commission, is a former associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, and has practiced as a solicitor at a major Australian national law firm. She is the author of Trading Fish, Saving Fish: The Interaction between Regimes in International Law (2011) and Regime Interaction in International Law: Facing Fragmentation (2012), both published by Cambridge University Press. The latter is an edited collection that includes contributions from leading international, comparative and constitutional law scholars, and is based on the conference she convened at the University of Cambridge in 2009 on Regime Interaction in International Law: Theoretical and Practical Challenges. Dr Young 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 ColumbiaLawSchool. 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.
Margaret A. Young, ‘Food Security, Sustainability and Trade Distortions: Fisheries Subsidies and the WTO’ in Rosemary Rayfuse and Nicole Weisfelt (eds), The Challenge of Food Security (Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming)
Margaret A. Young, 'Climate Change Law and Regime Interaction' [2011:2] Carbon and Climate Law Review 147
Margaret A. Young, 'Protecting Endangered Marine Species: Collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization and the CITES Regime' (2010) 11 Melbourne Journal of International Law 441
James Crawford and Margaret Young (eds), The Function of Law in the International Community: An Anniversary Symposium (2008), Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference on the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Available at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/25th_anniversary/book.php
Margaret A. Young, 'The WTO's use of relevant rules of international law: an analysis of the Biotech case' (2007) 56 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 907
Margaret A. Young, '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
Assistant Editor, British Year Book of International Law
Society of International Economic Law
American Society of International Law
Other
Selected invited presentations
Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) (New Voices Panel: Global Health, Trade & Common Resource Regimes), Washington DC, 24 March 2011
The Challenge of Food Security, 3rd Biennial Ingram Colloquium on International Law and Development, UNSW Faculty of Law, Sydney, Australia, 2 December 2010
'Climate Change Law and Regime Interaction', Climate Change Governance After Copenhagen, co-hosted by Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong and Faculty of Laws, University College London, Hong Kong, 5 November 2010
'Can International Trade Law Solve Environmental Problems?', Queen's College Guest Lecture Program, Queen's College, University of Melbourne, Australia, 13 September 2010
Fisheries and International Trade Law, International Trade Law Symposium hosted by the Law Council of Australia, Attorney-General's Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, 10 September 2010
'Regime Interaction: Climate Change & Trade Law', Second Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law, Barcelona, Spain, 8-10 July 2010
‘Institutional Interaction between the WTO and climate change regimes: lessons from International Law’, International Trade Law Symposium hosted by the Law Council of Australia, Attorney-General’s Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, 3 April 2009
‘Can International Law Promote Sustainable Development? Lessons from Trade and Fisheries Regimes’, IstanbulPolicyCenter, Sabanci University, Turkey, 16 December 2008
‘Towards a Legal Framework for Regime Interaction: Lessons from International Trade and Fisheries Regimes’, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK, 21 November 2008
‘Preempting International Law's Fragmentation through Regime Interaction: the WTO and Fisheries Subsidies’, WTO Scholar’s Forum, University College London, UK, 13 October 2008
‘Information-Sharing and Governance in the Negotiation of WTO Disciplines: The Doha Negotiations on Fisheries Subsidies’, Society for International Economic Law Inaugural Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 17 July 2008
‘International Law in WTO Treaty Interpretation’, Presentation to the Legal Service of the European Commission, Workshop, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK, 30 May 2008
‘Conflict and Collaboration in International Trade and Environmental Law: A Case Study of Fisheries’, Columbia Law School, USA, 9 December 2004
