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Katharine G. Young is a Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, holding concurrent roles as the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (Spring 2025). She specializes in international human rights law, comparative constitutional law, and gender studies, with a focus on economic and social rights. Her academic journey includes degrees from the University of Melbourne (B.A., LL.B.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M., S.J.D.), where she was a Knox Scholar. She has held fellowships at Harvard’s Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics, and previously served as Associate Dean of Faculty and Global Programs at Boston College.
Her research examines 'positive legal obligations' requiring state action, including studies on queues/waiting lists in legal systems and climate change migration. Key works include *Constituting Economic and Social Rights* (Oxford UP, 2012) and the co-edited *Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights* (2022). She chairs Boston College’s Working Group on Climate Change and Migration, collaborating with global scholars, scientists, and ethicists.
Publications span journals like *Georgetown Law Journal*, *Harvard Human Rights Journal*, and *Columbia Journal of Transnational Law*. Awards include the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar title and her 2019 *Future of Economic and Social Rights* (Cambridge UP), co-edited with Amartya Sen’s foreword. Teaching focuses on Feminist Legal Theory, Contracts, and Human Rights Law.
Professional experience includes legal practice at Allens (Melbourne), UN Climate Secretariat (Germany), and the Legal Resources Centre (Ghana). She clerked for Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby and led Australia’s Jessup Moot Court team to victory. Current projects emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to socio-economic rights and global legal frameworks.
