A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stephen B. Young was named dean of Hamline University School of Law in 1980 after serving as Assistant Dean at Harvard Law School. From 1967-71, Young served as an Office of Civil Operations and Rural Support (CORDS) Deputy District Advisor and Chief, Village Government Branch in Vinh Long province, working on law reform efforts to decentralize governance to the villages at the height of the Vietnam War. With State Department friends, he later initiated the resettlement of refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
As dean, Young extended ties with the Hamline administration and undergraduate faculty, and gained acceptance of Hamline as a member school of the AALS in January 1984. He also led efforts to launch the Journal of Law and Religion with the Harvard Law and Divinity School-based Council on Law and Religion.
After he left the law school, Young became the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism (CRT) and a respected original founder of the corporate social responsibility movement, serving on the Council of Foreign Relations. He has written books on moral capitalism, the role of CORDS during the Vietnam War, human rights in China and Vietnam, and Kissinger’s Betrayal, about Kissinger’s compromise of South Vietnam’s chance for survival as a nation.