Associate Professor Stephen Young, Research, Faculty of Law

BA(Hons)(Bucknell) MA(Colorado State) JD(Colorado) PhD(NSW)

Contact

Office 10 Floor – 10C12
Email stephen.young@otago.ac.nz

Teaching

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.

Publications

Young, S. (2024). Pooling liability? Not in Tasman District Council v Buchanan [2024] NZCA 133. New Zealand Law Journal, (5), 180-184. Journal - Research Article

Hobbs, H., Young, S., & McIntyre, J. (2024). The internationalisation of pseudolaw: The growth of sovereign citizens arguments in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 47(1), 309-342. doi: 10.53637/YBCN5467 Journal - Research Article

Young, S. M. (2024). The structural limits of the law: The event horizon of legality. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 198p. doi: 10.4324/9781003483892 Authored Book - Research

Young, S. (2023, November). On methods and madness: Making sense of pseudolegal nonsense. School of Law, Society and Criminology, University of New South Whales, Sydney, Australia. [Research Presentation]. Other Research Output

Hobbs, H., McIntyre, J., & Young, S. (2023). Some people think income tax is illegal. It's pseudolaw, and it's damaging the legal system. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/some-people-think-income-tax-is-illegal-its-pseudolaw-and-its-damaging-the-legal-system-214847 Journal - Research Other

2024

Authored Book - Research

Young, S. M. (2024). The structural limits of the law: The event horizon of legality. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 198p. doi: 10.4324/9781003483892

Journal - Research Article

Young, S. (2024). Pooling liability? Not in Tasman District Council v Buchanan [2024] NZCA 133. New Zealand Law Journal, (5), 180-184.

2023

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.

Young, S. (2023). Contesting subjects: International legal discourses on terrorism and indigenous peoples' human rights. Asian Journal of International Law, 13, 273-293. doi: 10.1017/S2044251322000534

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 Other

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

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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.

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, UK.

Other Research Output

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].

2022

Chapter in Book - Research

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

Journal - Research Article

Young, S. M. (2022). Tortious discipline. Griffith Law Review, 31(2), 266-286. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2022.2085419

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Young, S. (2022, August). The temporal trap of human rights. Verbal presentation at the Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law Workshop, [Online].

Other Research Output

Young, S. (2022, April). Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Sources and implementation. Guest lecture, College of Law, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia. [Invited Presentation].

Young, S. (2022, May). The uses of Indigenous peoples' Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Troubling subjects. School of Law Research Seminar, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. [Research Presentation].

2021

Chapter in Book - Research

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.

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.

Young, S. (2021). Native title as displaced mediator. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 44(4), 1739-1769.

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

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 Other

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

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].

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, UK.

Other Research Output

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].

Young, S. (2021, August). Troubling subjects: Legal performativity and Indigenous peoples' FPIC. Religion Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].

2020

Authored Book - Research

Young, S. (2020). Indigenous peoples, consents and rights: Troubling subjects. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 264p.

Journal - Research Article

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.

Young, S., & Latu, A. (2020). Class actions, crown negligence, immunities and epidemics on trial. New Zealand Law Journal, (10), 368-372.

Young, S. (2020). Rights of Indigenous peoples: The Sioux tribes’ opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline: Standing Rock VI. Māori Law Review. Retrieved from http://maorilawreview.co.nz/2020/07/the-sioux-tribes-continuing-opposition-to-the-dapl-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-v-us-army-corps-of-engineers-standing-rock-vi/

Young, S. (2020). Computing compensation for extinguishing native title in Australia. New Zealand Law Journal, (4), 153-157.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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.

Other Research Output

Young, S. M. (2020, April). Frederic Jameson: Vanishing Mediator. Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political. Retrieved from https://criticallegalthinking.com/2020/04/24/frederic-jameson-vanishing-mediator/

2019

Journal - Research Article

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Hobbs, H., & Young, S. (2019). Modern treaty-making and the limits of the law. Proceedings of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy (ASLP) Conference. Retrieved from https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/events/australasian-society-of-legal-philosophy-conference

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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.

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.

Other Research Output

Young, S. M. (2019, February). Michel Foucault: Discipline. Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political. Retrieved from http://criticallegalthinking.com/2019/02/26/michel-foucault-discipline/

2018

Journal - Research Other

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

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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

2017

Journal - Research Article

Young, S. M. (2017). The Sioux’s Dakota Access Pipeline protest: Lessons from abroad. Australian Environment Review, 32(4), 102-106.

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.

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

Young, S. (2017). The Sioux's suits: Global law and the Dakota Access Pipeline. American Indian Law Journal, 6(1), 173-238.

Journal - Research Other

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

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

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.

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.

Other Research Output

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].

2016

Other Research Output

Young, S. (2016). Judith Butler: Performativity. Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political blog. Retrieved from http://criticallegalthinking.com/2016/11/14/judith-butlers-performativity/

2015

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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.

2006

Journal - Research Article

Young, S. M. (2006). On the status of vermin. Between the Species, 13(6), 8. doi: 10.15368/bts.2006v13n6.8