Margot Young

Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia

Equality law and theory, social and economic rights, social welfare law

Media

UBC Law asks B.C.’s Law Society to consider impact of Trinity Western’s ‘covenant’ on LGBT community

Alberta churches file legal challenge of COVID-19 restrictions

Biography

Margot Young is Professor in the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. After studying at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley, Young began her teaching career at the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. In 2002, she moved to the University of British Columbia. She was the Director of the Social Justice Specialization at the law school and has organized the Law and Society Speakers Series for close to a decade. Young served three terms as Chair of the university-wide Faculty Association Status of Women Committee. She is a research associate with Green College, the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Centre for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at UBC. Young is a frequent commentator in the media on a variety of issues to do with social justice and socio-economic rights issues. Interviews include local, national, and international print, television, and radio coverage of key constitutional, equality, and civil liberties issues.

Expertise

  • Equality law and theory
  • Social and economic rights
  • Social welfare law