To learn more about Dean Michael K. Young, read the Meridian article, “Michael Young: Keeping Watch on International Religious Freedom.”Mike Young is a graduate of the Brigham Young University (B.A., summa cum laude with highest honors, 1973) and Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1976), where he served as Note Editor of The Harvard Law Review. Before beginning his teaching career, Brother Young served as Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist and to Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.Mike joined the George Washington Law School (Washington D.C.) in the summer of 1998 as Dean and Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence. He also currently serves as the United State’s President-appointed Vice-Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (established by the International Freedom Act of 1989), on which he has served since its creation. He is also a member of the Committee on International Judicial Relations of the Judicial Conference of the United States, as well as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In addition, he also serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy.Dean Young was the Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions at the School of Law of Columbia University. At Columbia, he also served as Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies, the Center for Korean Legal Studies, and the Project on Religion, Rights and Religious Freedom. Dean Young has been a Visiting Professor and Scholar at the Law Faculties of the University of Tokyo, Waseda University and Nihon University. He has also been a Japan Foundation Fellow.During the Administration of President George (H.W.) Bush, Dean Young served as Ambassador for Trade and Environmental Affairs, Deputy Under Secretary for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Legal Advisor to the U.S. Department of State. In 1996, he also served as Counsel to Select Subcommittee on Transfers of Iranian Arms to Bosnian Muslims of the U.S. House of Representatives.Brother Young has served as Stake President of the New York New York Stake. He currently serves on the Washington D.C. Public Affairs Advisory Council and serves on the High Council of the McLean Virginia Stake. Bottom line for Mike Young is his commitment to his family and the gospel.
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