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Donna Young

Donna Young
Donna Young, Founding Dean and Professor

Publications

  • In Pursuit of Diversity, Justice and Repair, 44 Thomas Jefferson Law Review, 30 (2021).
  • Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Resistance in the United States, Routledge Companion To Black Women's Cultural Histories (Janell Hobson, Ed., 2021) (with Janell Hobson).
  • Rule of Law, Activism, and Equality: Growing Anti-Subordination Norms Within the Neoliberal University, 50 John Marshall Law Review 249 (2017) (with Peter Halewood).
  • From the Editor: Race on Campus, 102 Academe (AAUP, 2016).
  • Domains of Policy: Law & Society Perspectives on Anti-Discrimination, Wiley Handbook of Law and Society (Austin Sarat and Patty Ewick, Eds., 2015).
  • Exploring the Boundaries of Antidiscrimination Law and Equality in the Global Workplace, 21(1) Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 197 (2013).
  • Post Race Posthaste: Towards an Analytical Convergence of Critical Race Theory and Marxism, 1 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 499 (2012).
  • Defining Race Through Law: Enforcing the Social Norms of Power and Privilege, 72 Albany Law Review 1041 (2009) (symposium).
  • Racial Releases, Involuntary Separations and Employment At-Will, 34 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 351 (2001).
  • Litigating Labor Rights, 94 ASIL (American Society of International Law) Proc. 151 (Panel summary) (2000). 
  • Critical Race Theory: A Comparative Approach, 91 ASIL (American Society of International Law) Proc. 423 (1997).

Events/Conferences

  • Future of Human Rights in Ontario, Human Rights @ 60 Conference, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Toronto Metropolitan University's Human Rights Services and Lincoln Alexander School of Law, (Keynote Speaker), June 23, 2022
  • Black Law Students' Association of Canada, National Conference, (Keynote Speaker), February 20, 2022
  • Black Professionals Leadership Program, University of Victoria, Faculty of Law (Keynote Speaker), February 15, 2022.
  • EDI Strategic Toolkit: Evaluating Organizational Inclusion, Law Society of Ontario and Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, (Speaker), February 10, 2022.
  • Remembering Lincoln Alexander & Martin Luther King Jr., Afro Canadian Caribbean Association, (Keynote Speaker), January 16, 2022.
  • Facing Resistance Speaker Series: How to Transform the Justice System and Create Social Change, Level, (panelist), November 23, 2021.
  • Integrating Critical Race Theory into the Curriculum of Canada's Law Schools and Reimagining Legal Education with an EDI Lens, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, (panelist), November 13, 2021.
  • Black Futures: “Where are the Black People? Under-representation in the Academy”, (Guest Speaker), July 5, 2021
  • "Black History Month Program 2021: A Strategy Toolkit for BIPOC Inclusion", Law Society of Ontario and Canadian Association of Black Lawyers (CABL), (Panelist), February 25, 2021.
  • "Generous Futures: Black Voices Leading", Toronto Metropolitan University, (Moderator), February 24, 2021.
  • 17th Annual Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, (Speaker), February 8, 2021.
  • LIVE Webinar | Empowered Black Women in Law, Norton Rose Fullbright LLP, (Panelist), December 3, 2020.
  • Forum: Diversity on the Bench, Hosted by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, (Panel Moderator), September 17, 2020.