Prof Simon Young
Name | Prof Simon Young |
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Email Address | simon.young@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Professor (Law and Justice) |
Qualifications | AMusA AMEB, BA Qld, LLB Qld, LLM QUT, PhD UWA |
Department | School of Law and Justice |
Affiliations | Centre for Heritage and Culture |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8835-7164 (unauthenticated) |
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Biography
Dr Simon Young is a Professor of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland and Deputy Director of UniSQ's Centre for Heritage and Culture. He specialises in the areas of First Nations law and policy (particularly native title) and public law (particularly administrative law) - publishing books in those fields in 1997, 2001, 2007, 2008 and 2016 - and articles in Australian, Canadian and UK journals. His postgraduate work on comparative native title was awarded UWA's Robert Street Prize for the PhD thesis making the most significant contribution to its field (2005), and his 2019 analysis of evolutions in Australian native title law was shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards (Article/Chapter category). He has provided expert advice and/or seminars to various government agencies (in Australia and Canada), various non-government organisations, law reform commissions, courts and tribunals, law firms, barristers and journalists. In 2023 Simon was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to research First Nations' water rights at the University of Wisconsin in the US.
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Professor of Law and Justice | University of Southern Queensland - School of Law and Justice / Centre for Heritage and Culture | 2014 | 2024 |
Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor | University of Western Australia - School of Law | 2005 | 2014 |
Lecturer in Law | Queensland University of Technology | 1997 | 2005 |
Clerk/Solicitor | Minter Ellison Lawyers | 1992 | 1996 |
Expertise
First Nations law and policy
Native title
Administrative Law
Government Accountability
Comparative law
Public law
Teaching
LAW2221/5221 - Administrative Law
LAW3486/8709 - Native Title Law & Policy
LAW8716 - Government Accountability
LAW2214/5214 - Property Law
IDK2203 - Indigenous Environmental Perspectives and Knowledge
Fields of Research
- 450509. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customary law
- 450518. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the law
- 480302. Comparative law
- 480701. Administrative law
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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Adjunct Professor - School of Law, Uni of Western Australia | |
External Fellow - Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, Uni of Queensland | |
Admitted Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland | |
Member of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law | |
Member of The International Society of Public Law |
Supervision Interests
First Nations law and policy
Native title
Administrative Law
Government Accountability
Comparative law
Public law
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Data-driven analysis of the evolution of Australian judicial review (UWA) | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Comparative analysis of the legal parameters for Indigenous consent to mining projects (UWA) | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Persecution, Vilification and Prosecution: The enduring impacts of the Bjelke-Petersen era for homosexual men in Australia. | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
The (unchecked) role of the authorised person in a local government context | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
The Critique of the Native Title Process - An Indigenous Perspective | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2023 |
Establishing the Cordon: The Foundation of Colonial Papua | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
The child's best interest: Legal assessments of a child's evidence | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2016 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Still Waters Run Deep: Pilbara iron ore State agreement rights to mine dewatering and water law reform (UWA) | Associate | Doctoral | 2018 |
Regulating groundwater use efficiency for sustainable development: the experiences of Colorado, the Namoi Catchment and the Gnangara Mound (UWA) | Associate | Doctoral | 2014 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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Cultural Water Modelling in Southern Queensland | Co-lead researcher on CSIRO funded collaborative project across several sites in southern Queensland. | 2023 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2023 | Fulbright Scholar Award | Fulbright Commission / Uni of Wisconsin | |
2020 | Shortlisting for the Australian Legal Research Awards (Article/Chapter category) | Council of Australian Law Deans | |
2005 | Robert Street Prize for best PhD thesis | UWA | |
2001 | APA Scholarship | Commonwealth Government |