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Alison Young

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CUF Lecturer

Alison L Young is Senior Law Tutor at Hertford College and teaches Constitutional law, Administrative law, European Union law and Comparative Public law, as well as providing occasional seminars in Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Principles of the European Union. She is also the Teaching and Learning Officer for the Faculty, having completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Oxford.

She studied Law and French at the University of Birmingham, before coming to Hertford College, obtaining BCL and D Phil. She was a tutor in law and a Fellow of Balliol College from 1997 to 2000, before returning to Hertford as a Fellow and Tutor in law in October 2000.

Her D Phil examined defamation law and freedom of expression and she currently researches in applied constitutional theory, public law and human rights, particularly freedom of expression. She is the author of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act (Hart, 2009).



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2013

A L Young, 'The Human Rights Act 1998, Horizontality and the Constitutionalisation of Private Law' in Katja Ziegler and Peter Huber (eds), Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights (Hart Publishing 2013)

2012

A L Young, 'The Rule of Law in the United Kingdom: Formal or Substantive?' (2012) 6 International Constitutional Laww 259

2011

A L Young, David Hoffman and Gavin Phillipson, 'Introduction' in Hoffman (ed), The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (Cambridge University Press 2011) [...]

Introduction to a book on the impact of the HRA on private law. The book sets out the main issues of discussion and themes running through this area of the law.


ISBN: 9781107009325

A L Young, 'Is Dialogue Working under the Human Rights Act 1998?' [2011] Public Law 773

A L Young, 'Mapping Horizontal Effect' in Hoffman (ed), The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (Cambridge University Press 2011) [...]

Am examination of the different forms ways in which human rights may have horizontal effect and their relationship to the way in which human rights law may have an impact on private law.


ISBN: 9781107009325


Interests

Teaching: Constitutional and Administrative Law; European Union Law; Human Rights Law; Philosophy of Law; Comparative Public Law

Research: Constitutional Theory, Human Rights, Public law and European Union law.

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Hertford College
Catte Street
Oxford OX1 3BW

Centre for Competition Law & Policy

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