Julie Cromer Young

Biography

Julie Cromer Young teaches Legal Information and Communication I & II. Prior to joining Belmont’s faculty, Professor Young practiced litigation and trademark and copyright law in Chicago, Illinois, representing high-profile clients. She joined academia in 2003 at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, where she taught Civil Procedure, Copyright, Conflict of Laws, Food and Drug Law, Administrative Law, and International Intellectual Property, and served as the Director for the Center of Law and Intellectual Property. In 2013, she co-chaired the Women and the Law Conference, Her Honor: Women in the Judiciary, featuring The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg as its keynote speaker. Professor Young’s scholarship has concentrated on novel issues in copyright law and civil procedure; her most recent articles have addressed litigating works created by artificial intelligence. Professor Young has also been a Visiting Professor at American University Washington College of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law, and Ateneo de Manila University School of Law.  

A native of Germantown, Tennessee, Professor Young graduated from the University of Alabama and from Harvard Law School.