Donna E. Young

Donna E. Young is the founding dean of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University. Before assuming the deanship, Donna served as the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School and a joint faculty member at the University at Albany’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her teaching and scholarship focus on law and inequality, race and gender discrimination, and academic freedom and university governance. She has taught courses in Criminal Law, Employment Law, U.S. Federal Civil Procedure, Gender and Work, and Race, Rape Culture, and Law.

Donna is much sought after as a speaker and has been invited to present her work at conferences and other venues in the U.S., Canada, Sri Lanka, Italy, Germany, Hungary, France, Mexico, Portugal, and the U.K.

Prior to entering legal education, Donna worked at Cornish Roland, a labor law firm in Toronto; at the Ontario Human Rights Commission; and at the City of New York's Office of Labor Relations.

She holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Toronto, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law.