New Staff Member to Join Faculty in 2009

Melbourne Law School is delighted to announce that Margaret Young will be joining the Faculty as a senior lecturer in 2009.

Dr Margaret Young is 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 (First class) from the University of Cambridge and a BA/LLB (First class 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 and the Commonwealth Scholarship. Dr Young is currently working on a book on 'Trade Related Aspects of Fisheries: Fragmentation and Regime Interaction in International Law'. She lectures in Cambridge's LLM course on WTO law and is the assistant editor of the British Year Book of International Law. A former associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, the Hon Michael Black AC, she has also practised as a solicitor with Freehills and has worked at the World Trade Organisation (Appellate Body), United Nations International Law Commission and at Greenpeace International. She will teach a range of international law and administrative law subjects at Melbourne.