Professor

Katharine

G.

Young

Katharine Young is Professor and the Robert A. Trevisani Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School. She served as the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in Spring 2025, and also previously served as the Associate Dean of Faculty and Global Programs at Boston College Law School (2021-2024). Her research focuses on international human rights law, human rights and interdisciplinarity, comparative constitutional law, economic and social rights, and law and gender and she has published a number of books and articles in these fields, most recently editing The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights. She earned her B.A. and LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and later completed the LL.M. studies and S.J.D. degree from Harvard University as a Knox Scholar. She also completed a law exchange at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (in German). Prior to doctoral studies, Professor Young clerked for Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG of the Australian High Court, and represented the winning team, for Australia, of the Jessup International Law Moot Court. When in practice, she worked as a lawyer with Allens in Melbourne, with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, with the Legal Resources Centre in Accra, Ghana, and with Paul, Weiss in New York.