Professor Alison L Young

Alison received her undergraduate education at the University of Birmingham, being awarded an LLB in Law and French, which included studying for a Diplôme d’études juridiques françaises at the Université de Limoges. She then came to Hertford, obtaining a BCL and DPhil here. She was a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Balliol College for three years, before returning to Hertford in 2000 as a Fellow in Law and later Professor of Public Law. Since 2018, she has been the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. From September 2021 to March 2024, she acted as a legal advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. In March 2024 she was appointed as the Law Commissioner for Public Law and the Law in Wales.