Alison L Young is Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Robinson College. She is currently a legal advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution and an academic associate at 39 Essex Chambers. Alison is also a member of the Editorial Board of European Public Law, and of Public Law, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a trustee of The Constitution Society, and a member of the UK Constitution Monitoring Group.