Faculty and Administration Profiles

Dawn Young

About

Dawn Young will join the Loyola faculty in the fall of 2024 to teach legal writing. From 2022 to 2024, Professor Young taught academic skills courses at the University of Idaho College of Law, where she also co-directed the academic success program and supervised its student fellows.

Before her tenure at the University of Idaho College of Law, Professor Young held various roles at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. From 2020 to 2022, she served as Director of Academic Skills, overseeing the academic skills program, supervising teaching assistants, and acting as the writing specialist. Additionally, from 2018 to 2022, she taught an upper-level legal writing course as an adjunct professor. From 2010 to 2020, she was Director of Institutional Projects, where she managed grants, directed various law school programs, and assisted with strategic planning and accreditation.

Prior to her academic career, Professor Young practiced law in both private practice and in the legal department of a real estate development and marketing company in Chicago.

Degrees

BA, Boston University
JD, Syracuse University College of Law
LLM, Boston University School of Law

Courses Taught

Legal Writing

Selected Publications

Recent Publications:

Metacognition for Law Students, American Bar Association for Law Students (January 25, 2023)

How to Improve Second Semester Grades: Leveraging your First Semester to Fuel Success, American Bar Association Student Lawyer (January 11, 2021)

A Growth Mindset for Law School Success, American Bar Association Before the Bar (September 12, 2017) (with Eduardo Briceno)

Self-Interested Fiduciaries and the Incubator Movement, 66 Syracuse L. Rev. 611 (2016) (with Harold J. Krent)

Recent Presentations:

AccessLex/AASE Faculty Scholarship Grant Work-in-Progress: Visible Learning: Adapting Primary and Secondary Pedagogical Approaches to Legal Education, The Eleventh Annual AASE Conference, University of Idaho College of Law, Boise, ID, May 2024

Guiding Law Students Through the Final Stretch, Let's Talk: A BARBRI Webinar Series for Academic Support Professionals, October 5, 2023 (with Stephen R. Miller)

Rule 303(b)(3)—Defining Your Institution’s Commitment Beyond Mere Compliance, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Conference, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, June 1, 2023 (with Brenda Bauges)

Thinking Outside of the Box: 10 Evidence-Based Tools Academic and Bar Success Educators Can Use in the Classroom to Increase Student Engagement and Learning, The Tenth Annual AASE Conference, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA, May 23, 2023 (with Erin Crist and Debbie Shapiro)

Rebounding From First-Semester Law School Grades, American Bar Association and Themis, January 28, 2022 (with Christopher Ide-Don and Kirsha Trychta)

Virtual Office Hours: How to Improve Second Semester Grades, American Bar Association Student Lawyer, January 21, 2021

Solo Practice Boot Camp: Best Practices from Legal Incubator Programs to Help You Launch Your Own Practice, Practising Law Institute, December 1, 2020

End User Experience: Hearing from New Lawyers in Incubator Programs, Association of Continuing Legal Education Annual Meeting, Swissotel Chicago, Chicago, IL, July 30, 2019

Assessing the Impact of Incubator Programs to Leverage Resources, Incubator Consortium Fifth Annual Access to Justice Conference, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA, April 12, 2018

Pricing, Shoestring Budgets and Profit Generation, Incubator Consortium Fourth Annual Access to Justice Conference, Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX, March 16, 2017