Katharine G. Young (Katie Young)
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S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University
| Status: | In Residence |
| Email: | kyoung@law.harvard.edu |
Dissertation
The International and Comparative Constitutional Method: Evolving Social Rights and Norms
The world-wide sweep of modern constitutionalism has advanced new "positive" conceptions of liberal rights. My dissertation subjects the justiciable conception of social rights to the explicit challenges posed by legal realism, social theory and political economy.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Comparative Constitutional Law, with Professor Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Law and Social Change, with Professor Lucie White, Harvard Law School
- Law and Development and Law and Economics, with Professor Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School
- Constitutional Theory, with Professor Frederick Schauer, Kennedy School of Government
Additional Research Interests
- Public International Law
- International Human Rights
- Environmental Law
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2003-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program 2002-2003
- University of Melbourne, LLB (Hons) 2000
- University of Melbourne, BA 2000
- University of Heidelberg, Law Exchange 1999
Appointments and Fellowships
- Harvard University, Graduate Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics 2007-2008
- Harvard Law School, Clark Byse Teaching Fellow, ‘Economic and Social Rights' 2006-2007
- Harvard University, Fellow, Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics 2005-2006
- NYU School of Law, Consultant Scholar, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice 2005-2006
- Harvard Law School and Fulbright Foundation, Assistant to Project Director, Health Rights and Ghana's Poor 2005
- Harvard University, Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 2004-2005
- Harvard Law School, Graduate Program Fellow, Co-Coordinator, Graduate Forum in Comparative Constitutionalism 2004-2005
- Harvard Law School, Teaching Assistant, Professor Lucie White, Community Action for Social and Economic Rights 2003-2004
- Harvard University, Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, 2002-2008
- University of Melbourne, Part-time Lecturer in International Law and Constitutional Law 2002
Representative Publications
- “The Minimum Core of Economic and Social Rights: A Concept in Search of Content”, 33 Yale Journal of International Law 113 (2008)
- “Open Chambers: High Court Associates and Supreme Court Clerks Compared”, 31 Melbourne University Law Review 646 (2007)
- “The Implementation of International Law in the Domestic Laws of Germany and Australia”, 21 Adelaide Law Review 177 (1999)
- “Letters of Comfort”, 26 Australian Business Law Review 309 (1998)
Additional Information
- Languages: English, German