Stephen teaches Torts, Laws and Indigenous Peoples, and International Human Rights Law.
Research interests
Stephen's areas of research involve the intersection of Indigenous peoples and law, human rights, and duties and obligations, drawing from critical and social theories.
Background
Before joining the Faculty, Stephen was a Teaching Fellow at the University of New South Wales where he also completed his PhD.
Prior to pursuing an academic career, he worked in private practice as a civil litigator focusing on tort disputes in Denver, Colorado. He obtained a JD from the University of Colorado, an MA from Colorado State University, and a BA from Bucknell University.
Young, S. (2023). [Review of the book The colonial politics of hope: Critical junctures of indigenous-state relations]. Social & Legal Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/09646639231181118
Journal - Research Other
Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (2023, May). Pseudo lawyers, conspiracy theorists, fixated persons, and the rest: A guide to managing self-represented litigants. Verbal presentation at the District and County Court Judges of Australia and New Zealand Biennial Conference: Managing Justice: Managing Self, Adelaide, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2023, March). What is pseudolaw? Who are these “Sovereign Citizens”? Implications of a growing trend. New Zealand Law Society, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Research Presentation].
Other Research Output
Young, S., MacIntyre, J., & Hobbs, H. (2023, April). Method and madness: How to make sense of pseudolegal nonsense. Verbal presentation at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Annual Conference, Derry, United Kingdom.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. M. (2023). Our legal borders: Interrelated constructions of individual and political bodies. Law & Critique, 34, 207-226. doi: 10.1007/s10978-022-09325-2
Journal - Research Article
Young, S., Hobbs, H., & McIntyre, J. (2023). The growth of pseudolaw and sovereign citizens in Aotearoa New Zealand courts. New Zealand Law Journal, (1), 6-10.
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2022). The temporal trap of human rights. In K. McNeilly & B. Warwick (Eds.), The times and temporalities of international human rights law. (pp. 67-84). Oxford: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509949939.ch-003
Chapter in Book - Research
Young, S. (2022). Contesting subjects: International legal discourses on terrorism and indigenous peoples' human rights. Asian Journal of International Law. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1017/S2044251322000534
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2022). Tortious discipline. Griffith Law Review, 31(2), 266-286. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2022.2085419
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2022, August). The temporal trap of human rights. Verbal presentation at the Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law Workshop, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2022, April). Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Sources and implementation. Guest lecture, College of Law, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia. [Invited Presentation].
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2022, May). The uses of Indigenous peoples' Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Troubling subjects. School of Law Research Seminar, Western Sydney University, Australia. [Research Presentation].
Other Research Output
Young, S., & Hobbs, H. (2021). Treaty-making: Critical reflections on critiques from abroad. In H. Hobbs, A. Whittaker & L. Coombes (Eds.), Treaty-making: Two hundred and fifty years later. (pp. 156-178). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2021). Modern treaty making and the limits of the law. University of Toronto Law Journal, 71(2), 234-273. doi: 10.3138/utlj-2019-0131
Journal - Research Article
Lixinski, L., & Young, S. (2021). Creative differences: Indigenous artists and the law at 20th century nation-building exhibitions. Hasting International & Comparative Law Review, 45(1), 3-38.
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Young, S. (2021). Native title as displaced mediator. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 44(4), 1739-1769.
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Young, S. (2021). Ngā ture o ngā iwi taketake: Wishes are not laws: McGirt v Oklahoma: One of the most important US Supreme Court cases of all time? Māori Law Review, (April). Retrieved from https://maorilawreview.co.nz
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2021). [Review of the books Standing with Standing Rock; Our history is the future]. Alternative Law Journal, 46(1), 86-87. doi: 10.1177/1037969X21996856
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2021, April). Overlapping subjects: Discourse, terrorism and Indigenous human rights in the Philippines. Verbal presentation at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2021, May). Contested bodies: The competing discourses of terrorism and indigenous Human Rights in the Philippines. Verbal presentation at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: Crisis, Healing, & Re-imagining, [Online].
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2021, April). What was the first year of my academic job like? UNSW PhD Skillshare, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. [Invited Presentation].
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2021, August). Troubling subjects: Legal performativity and Indigenous peoples' FPIC. Religion Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
Other Research Output
Fitzgerald, G., & Young, S. (2020). Agony, exclusion and colonial reproduction: A critical examination of the doctrine of difference in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 29, 313-346.
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2020). Computing compensation for extinguishing native title in Australia. New Zealand Law Journal, (4), 153-157.
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Young, S., & Latu, A. (2020). Class actions, crown negligence, immunities and epidemics on trial. New Zealand Law Journal, (10), 368-372.
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Young, S. (2020, November). Reconsidering the uses of Indigenous peoples’ free, prior and informed consent. Verbal presentation at the Thomson Reuters New & Emerging Scholars Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2019). Consent, custom and international law in South Africa: What Australian lawmakers could learn. Alternative Law Journal, 44(3), 197-202. doi: 10.1177/1037969X19853853
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2019). Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations, and international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples. London Review of International Law, 7(3), 377-408. doi: 10.1093/lril/lraa004
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2019). Searching for the author: A performative reading of legal subjection in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King. Law & Humanities, 13(2), 247-268. doi: 10.1080/17521483.2019.1676530
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2019). The deification of process in Canada's duty to consult: Tsleil-Waututh nation v Canada. UBC Law Review, 52(3), 1065-1105.
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Young, S. M. (2019). The material costs of claiming international human rights: Australia, Adani and the Wangan and Jagalingou. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 20(2), 1-46.
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Young, S. M. (2019). The self divided: The problems of contradictory claims to Indigenous peoples’ self-determination in Australia. International Journal of Human Rights, 23(1-2), 193-213. doi: 10.1080/13642987.2018.1562913
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. (2019, April). Big data, business and human rights: Questions about the indigenous navigator. Verbal presentation at the Data Ownership, Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Governance Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. M. (2019, May). Big Data and the business of human rights: The benefits and pitfall of the indigenous navigator. Verbal presentation at the Innovate Rights Conference: New Thinking on Business and Human Rights, Sydney, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. (2018). Pathologies and positivism [Review of the book The Sovereignty of Human Rights]. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 24(2), 245-250. doi: 10.1080/1323238X.2018.1475464
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2018). Searching for the author: A legal performative reading of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished metafictional novel The Pale King. Vertigo: Fake News/Real Theory Seminar. Retrieved from https://law.anu.edu.au/event/seminar/vertigo-fake-newsreal-theory
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Young, S. (2017). The Sioux's suits: Global law and the Dakota Access Pipeline. American Indian Law Journal, 6(1), 173-238.
Journal - Research Article
Young, S. M. (2017). Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Act 2017 (Cth): Relying on human rights to justify a legalised form of colonial dispossession? Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8(30), 24-28.
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Young, S. M. (2017). Tangible artefacts unearth contemporary legalities: Aboriginal artefacts and the Randwick Light Rail Project. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 23(3), 285-309. doi: 10.1080/1323238X.2017.1382679
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Young, S. M. (2017). The Sioux’s Dakota Access Pipeline protest: Lessons from abroad. Australian Environment Review, 32(4), 102-106.
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Young, S. M. (2017). [Review of the book A handful of sand: The Gurindji struggle, after the walk0off]. Alternative Law Journal, 42(4), 312-313. doi: 10.1177/1037969X17735759
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. M. (2017). [Review of the book Foucault and the politics of rights]. Alternative Law Journal, 42(1), 79-80. doi: 10.1177/1037969X17698312
Journal - Research Other
Young, S. (2017, March). Was Deskaheh indigenous? Re-considering the narrative of indigenous peoples in international law. Verbal presentation at the International Legal Pasts: Work in Progress Workshop, Sydney, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. M. (2017, February). Indigenous uses of free, prior and informed consent: Expressing and repressing subjectivities. Verbal presentation at the Law and Political Economies of the South Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. M. (2017). Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017: Submission 47. Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Australian Parliament, Canberra, Australia. [Government Submission].
Other Research Output
Young, S. (2015, December). Native Title in an FPIC World: Questioning the continued reliance on the right to negotiate. Verbal presentation at the Annual Law Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ): Inside Out, Adelaide, Australia.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Young, S. M. (2006). On the status of vermin. Between the Species, 13(6), 8. doi: 10.15368/bts.2006v13n6.8
Journal - Research Article