Simon Young was a full-time member of the UWA Law Faculty from 2005 until 2014 - before which he worked for four years with a national law firm and eight years with the Queensland University of Technology. In 2014 he took up a position as Professor of Law & Justice at the University of Southern Queensland in his family's home town of Toowoomba. He remains an Adjunct Professor at UWA. He specialises in public law (particularly administrative law) and Indigenous law and policy (particularly native title). He has published books in these fields in 1997, 2001, 2007, 2008 and 2016, and his articles have appeared in Australian, Canadian and UK journals. His postgraduate work on comparative native title was awarded the Robert Street Prize for the PhD thesis at UWA making the most significant contribution to its field (2005), and his analysis of evolutions in Australian native title law was shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards (Article/Chapter category). Simon teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units at UniSQ and UWA. He has provided expert advice and/or seminars to various government agencies (in Australia and Canada), various non-government organisations, the Australian Law Reform Commission, judges, law firms, barristers and journalists.  In 2024 he undertook a Fulbright Scholar exchange to study First Nations' water rights at the University of Wisconsin in the US.

Professor of Law and Justice (University of Southern Queensland) (2014-)

Member of the Centre for Heritage and Culture (UniSQ) (2019-)

Adjunct Professor of Law (UWA) (2014-)

External Fellow - Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, University of Queensland (2017-)

Member of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law (2004-)

Member of The International Society of Public Law (2020-)

Admitted Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland (1994-) 

Simon teaches principally in the fields of administrative law, government accountability and Indigenous law and policy (particularly native title). He also periodically teaches in specific areas of Constitutional Law and Property Law.

Simon has received the UWA Blackstone Society Award for Law Teacher of the Year (in 2008 & 2013), the UWA Faculty of Law Excellence in Individual Teaching Award (p/grad & u/grad) (2008), the UniSQ Law Student Society Outstanding Lecturer Award (2020 & 2022), and the UWA School of Law Enhancing Student Learning Award (2023).