Biography

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Ezra Young is a nationally recognized scholar and attorney based in New York. He maintains a boutique private practice. Formerly, he was a visiting assistant professor of law at Cornell Law School where he taught Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Transgender People and the Law.

Ezra’s expertise lies in constitutional law, equity, and civil rights. His scholarly work has two strands. The first explores the rights of trans persons and is situated in the nascent field of critical trans theory. The second strand interrogates the metes and bounds of courts’ equity powers.

Ezra has a national, expansive, and varied litigation practice. He has considerable experience advising clients, non-profits, and governments on thorny issues of civil and appellate procedure and equity. Ezra has represented individuals and non-profits in an array of direct actions and as amicus counsel in federal and state appellate and trial courts as well as administrative proceedings. Ezra has served as counsel and prevailed in cases heard by the Texas Supreme Court, Delaware Supreme Court, Delaware Chancery, Illinois Chancery as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, among others. Ezra has also successfully co-litigated path-breaking trans rights impact cases with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in federal courts in Florida, Oklahoma, and Minnesota.

Ezra currently serves as board secretary of the African American Policy Forum. He is a founding board member and past co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association. He 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 of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

Ezra received his BA in Philosophy from Cornell University and his JD from Columbia Law School. While a law student, Ezra served as Executive Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law and Online & Consulting Editor of the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. From 2012 to 2014, Ezra was a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia Law School. His post doctoral studies focused on trans rights, Critical Race Theory, and intersectionality and were supervised by renowned scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Admitted to practice in the Chickasaw Nation, U.S. Supreme Court, New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the District of Columbia.

Permitted to practice in other jurisdictions by permission.