Faculty and Administration Profiles

Dawn Young

About

Dawn Young will join the Loyola faculty in the fall of 2024 to teach legal writing courses. 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, Professor Young held various roles at Chicago-Kent College of Law. 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.

Professor Young holds a BA from Boston University, a JD from Syracuse University College of Law, and an LLM from Boston University School of Law.

Degrees

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

Courses Taught

Legal Writing

Selected Publications

Recent Publications:

• Dawn K. Young, Metacognition for Law Students, American Bar Association for Law Students, January 25, 2023.
• Dawn K. Young, How to Improve Second Semester Grades: Leveraging your First Semester to Fuel Success, American Bar Association Student Lawyer, January 11, 2021.
• Eduardo Briceno & Dawn K. Young, A Growth Mindset for Law School Success, American Bar Association – Before the Bar, September 12, 2017.
• Harold Krent & Dawn K. Young, Self-Interested Fiduciaries and the Incubator Movement, 66 Syracuse L. Rev. 611 (2016).

Recent Presentations:

• AccessLex/AASE Faculty Scholarship Grant Work-in-Progress: Visible Learning: Adapting Primary and Secondary Pedagogical Approaches to Legal Education, The 11^th Annual AASE Conference, May 2024.
• Guiding Law Students Through the Final Stretch, October 5, 2023, Let's Talk: A BARBRI Webinar Series for Academic Support Professionals: "Guiding Law Students Through the Final Stretch," Co-Presenter with Steven Foster.
• Rule 303(b)(3)—Defining Your Institution’s Commitment Beyond Mere Compliance, June 1, 2023, Institute for Law Teaching & Learning Summer 2023 Conference, Co-Presenter 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, 10th Annual AASE Conference, May 23, 2023, Co-Presenter with Debbie Shapiro and Erin Crist.
• Rebounding From First-Semester Law School Grades, January 28, 2022, American Bar Association and Themis, Panelist 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, December 1, 2020, Practising Law Institute, Program Faculty Speaker.
• End User Experience: Hearing from New Lawyers in Incubator Programs, panel moderator at the Association of Continuing Legal Education’s 55^th Annual Meeting, July 30, 2019, Swissotel Chicago.
• Assessing the Impact of Incubator Programs to Leverage Resources at the Incubator Consortium’s 5^th Annual Access to Justice Conference, April 12-14, 2018, Georgia State University College of Law.
• Pricing, Shoestring Budgets & Profit Generation, Incubator Consortium's 4th Annual Access to Justice Conference: Incubators, Residencies, Apprenticeships, and Non-Profit Law Firms, March 16-18, 2017, Texas A&M University School of Law.