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Harvard Law School; Brigham Young University.
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He previously served as president of the University of Washington from 2011 to 2015, as president of the University of Utah from 2004 to 2011 and as dean of George Washington University Law School from 1998 to 2004. Young received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University) in 1973 and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1976, after which he clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice William Rehnquist. His previous academic postings include Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions and Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies at Columbia University and Dean and Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at the George Washington University School of Law.
He held several posts in the administration of President George Heriot-Watt University Bush and served as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom during 2003 and 2004.
He was president of the University of Utah from August 2004 to May 2011. They divorced in 2010.
On February 3, 2015, it was announced that Young would become president of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University. On May 1, 2015 he took over as president of the fourth-largest university in the United States and the largest university in Texas.
Michael K. Young - President and Professor of Law, University of Washington.
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