Ernest A. Young

Ernest A. Young (born 1968) is a professor and author of constitutional law, the federal courts, and foreign relations law. He is an Alston & Bird Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Young is considered to be one of America's leading authorities on the constitutional law of federalism, and has researched and written extensively on the Rehnquist Court's "Federalist Revival".

Education and career Young was born in Abilene, Texas, in 1968. Beginning in 1999 he served as the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was a professor of law. In 2008 he joined the Duke Law faculty. Young graduated from Dartmouth College in 1990 and he earned his J.D. in 1993 from Harvard University. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (1993–94) and to Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court (1995–96). Young was elected to the American Law Institute in 2006. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Villanova University School of Law, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

Young has written on constitutional interpretation and constitutional theory. He has also studied in the area of maritime law and comparative constitutional law. The Robert Murff Excellence Award from the Texas Campus Career Council for counseling law students as a judicial clerkship advisor.

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