Education

J.D., University of Virginia

B.C.L., Oxford University (Exeter College)

Bar and Court Admissions

District of Columbia

Pennsylvania (Inactive)

Washington, D.C.

Mr. Young is a member of the American Bar Association Task Force on American Democracy Advisory Commission. He is an Adjunct Professor of International & Comparative Election Law at William & Mary School Law, and Senior Counsel at Sandler Reiff in Washington, D.C. He is a former Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Election Law and editor and contributor to INTERNATIONAL ELECTION PRINCIPLES: DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW (ABA Press 2008), INTERNATIONAL ELECTION REMEDIES (ABA 2016), and AMERICA VOTES! 4th ed (ABA 2019) (with Benjamin E. Griffith). He is a former member of the ABA Board of Governors, and past chair of the ABA Senior Lawyers Division and Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Life Member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (U.K.). He has served as an advisor to Election Management Bodies in over a dozen countries on electoral justice, election procedures and electoral dispute resolution.

He received his law degrees from University of Virginia (J.D) and Oxford University (B.C.L.).

News

• February 27, 2019

  ABA Journal Profiles Dara Lindenbaum for Election Law Article

• August 02, 2016

  Rachel Provencher and Jack Young Co-Author Chapter in “America Votes!”

• December 30, 2008

  Young Portrayed in HBO Film About 2000 Election

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