Ezra Young

Ezra Young is a nationally recognized scholar and attorney based in New York. He maintains a boutique private practice and previously served as a visiting assistant professor at Cornell Law School, where he taught courses on constitutional law, critical race theory, and transgender people and the law. Young’s scholarship explores transgender rights and equitable remedies; his work has been widely published and cited by bodies such as the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Congressional Research Service. Young’s academic writing has appeared (or is forthcoming) in books and articles published by Routledge, Oxford University Press, the New Press, American Psychologist, California Law Review Online, Cleveland State Law Review, Jotwell, JURIST, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He maintains a broad litigation practice representing individuals, nonprofits, and governments, including co-litigating landmark transgender rights cases with the Department of Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Young currently serves as board secretary of the African American Policy Forum and is a founding board member and past co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association. Young previously served as legal director of the African American Policy Forum, research director of the Columbia Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, and director of impact litigation at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. Young holds a BA in philosophy from Cornell University and a JD from Columbia Law School, where he completed postdoctoral studies on trans rights and critical theory under Kimberlé Crenshaw.