Alison Young
Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government
Biography
I am the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Robinson College. I currently co-edit the UKCLA blog on constitutional law, and am a member of the Editorial Board of European Public Law, and of Public Law. I'm also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a trustee of The Constitution Society. I'm affiliated with the Oxford Human Rights Hub and with the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government, both at the University of Oxford. I am also an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
Publications
Young A and Phillipson G, ‘Would use of the prerogative to denounce the ECHR ‘frustrate’ the Human Rights Act? Lessons from Miller.’ [2017] Public Law
Young A, ‘R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union: Thriller or Vanilla?’ [2017] European Law Review
Young A, ‘<i>R-(on the application of Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union:</i> Thriller or Vanilla?’ (2017) 42(2) EUROPEAN LAW REVIEW 280
Barber N and Young A, ‘The Rise of Prospective Henry VIII Clauses and Their Implications for Sovereignty’
Young A and Gee G, ‘Regaining Sovereignty, Brexit, the UK Parliament and the Common Law’ [2016] European Public Law
Dimelow S and Young A, ‘
High speed rail, Europe and the constitution
’ [2014] Cambridge Law Journal
Young A, ‘Sovereignty: Demise, afterlife, or partial resurrection?’ (2011) 9(1) International Journal of Constitutional Law 163
Young A, ‘Deference, dialogue and the search for legitimacy’ (2010) 30(4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 815
Young A, ‘In Defence of Due Deference’ (2009) 72(4) MODERN LAW REVIEW 554
Young A, ‘A Peculiarly British Protection of Human Rights?’ (2005) 68(5) Modern Law Review 858
Young A, ‘Fact, Opinion, and the Human Rights Act 1998: Does English Law Need to Modify its Definition of ’Statements of Opinion’ to Ensure Compliance with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights?’ (2000) 20(1) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 89
Young A and Phillipson G, ‘Would use of the prerogative to denounce the ECHR ‘frustrate’ the Human Rights Act? Lessons from Miller.’ Public Law
‘
High speed rail, Europe and the constitution
’ [2014] Cambridge Law Journal
Young A and others, ‘European Union Law and the UK: The Juridification of the UK Constiution’ in A Albi and S Bardutzky (eds.), The Role of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance (TMC Asser Press 2019)
Young A, ‘Dialogue, Deliberation and Human Rights’ in R Levy and others (eds.), Deliberative Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press 2018)
Young A and de Burca G, ‘Proportionality’ in S Vogenauer and S Weatherill (eds.), General Principles of Law: European and Comparative Perspectives (Hart 2017)
Young A, ‘EU Fundamental Rights and Judicial Reasoning: Towards a Theory of Human Rights Adjudication for the European Union’ in S Douglas-Scott and N Hatzis (eds.), Research Handbook on EU Law and Human Rights (Elgar 2016)
Young A, ‘Lord Hoffmann and Public Law: TV Dinner or Dining at the Savoy?’ in J pila and PS davies (eds.), The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann (Hart 2015)
Huscroft G and others, ‘Proportionality Is Dead: Long Live Proportionality!’, Proportionality and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2014)
Young A, ‘Precedent’, The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (2011)
Hoffman D, Phillipson G and Young A, ‘Introduction’, The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (2011)
Young A, ‘Mapping horizontal effect’, The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (2011)
Young A, ‘M Gordon, Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK constitution’ [2016] Public Law 367 (review)
Young A, ‘Hiebert and Kelly: Parliamentary Bills of Rights’ [2015] American Journal of Comparative Law (review)
Young A, ‘Will You, Won’t You, Will You Join the Deference Dance?’ (2014) 34(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 375 (review)