Alan N. Young | |
|---|---|
| Law Professor/Lawyer | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | York University |
| Occupation | Professor / Lawyer / Researcher |
| Known for | Innocence Project |
| Website | http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/young-alan-n/ |
Alan N. Young is Professor Emeritus of law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Young retired July 2018. Prior to starting his teaching career at Osgoode in 1986, Young clerked for Chief Justice Bora Laskin of the Supreme Court of Canada and worked as a criminal lawyer in Toronto.
Young is the co-founder and former director of Osgoode's Innocence Project, which seeks to investigate and overturn cases of wrongful conviction and provides experiential education to law students. During his thirty-year tenure as a law professor, he maintained a small practice in criminal law and provided "free legal services to those whose alternative lifestyles have brought them into conflict with the law and to victims of violent crime and individuals attempting to sue the government for malicious prosecution".[1]
Young has been recognized by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the "Top 25 Most Influential" in the justice system and legal profession in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014.[2] In 2018, Young was also awarded the Dianne Martin Medal for Social Justice Through Law.