Law School News

Professor Margaret Tarkington, who is visiting at the University of Cincinnati College of Law this year, has posted two of her newest articles to SSRN. The first, Government Speech and the Publicly Employed …

Dick Harmon's recent article in the Deseret News about the behind-the-scenes working of BYU's recent move to football independence and its deal with ESPN revealed that some of the key players have BYU …

Professor Carolina Nuñez's recent article, Fractured Membership: Deconstructing Territoriality to Secure Rights and Remedies for the Undocumented Worker, was featured in a recent Deseret News article. BYU Professor Says Courts Not Protecting Undocumented Workers

Professor Brigham Daniels is one of our new additions to the law school this year. He comes to us from the University of Houston Law Center with an expertise in environmental law. He …

Professor Carolina Nuñez's newest article, Fractured Membership: Deconstructing Territoriality to Secure Rights and Remedies for the Undocumented Worker, has recently been published in the Wisconsin Law Review and is now available on SSRN.

Professor Tom Lee was confirmed today by the Utah State Senate in a unanimous vote and will now become a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. KSL Audio from the Utah Senate Floor

BYU Law School is ranked 33rd in Brian Leiter's Ranking of Top 40 Law Schools by Student (Numerical) Quality 2010. The ranking is described as "the top 40 schools in terms of student …

Professor David A. Thomas recently posted his latest article, Whither the Public Forum Doctrine: Has this Creature of the Courts Outlived its Usefulness?, to SSRN. Professor Thomas's article was published in the Real …

Professor Tom Lee's Utah Supreme Court confirmation hearing was held yesterday. The Senate confirmation committee voted unanimously in support of Prof. Lee. His nomination will now go before the full Utah Senate on …

Utah Governor Gary Herbert nominated Professor Tom Lee this morning to fill the vacancy on the Utah Supreme Court. Salt Lake Tribune Deseret News

Professor Fred Gedicks has posted his newest paper, Undoing Neutrality? From Separation to Tolerance in Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, to SSRN. More of Professor Gedicks's papers on SSRN can be found here.

Professor David Moore has recently posted his newest paper, Do U.S. Courts Discriminate Against Treaties? Equivalence, Duality, and Treaty Non-Self-Execution, to SSRN. This Essay will be published in the Columbia Law Review. View …

Professor Lisa Grow Sun has recently posted her article, Disaster Mythology and the Law, to SSRN. Professor Sun's article has been accepted for publication in the Cornell Law Review.

Last night was the Annual Awards Banquet and Barrister's Ball. It was a great event and we had the opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of many of the Law School's students, faculty and …

BYU Law School will host the 2010 Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools on March 18-19, 2010. The conference theme is "Blessing the Lives of Our Law Students: Opportunities and Challenges." Program and …

Professor David Dominguez has recently posted several of this articles to SSRN. Here's the list: Legal Education and the Ecology of Cultural Justice: How Affirmative Action Can Become Race-Neutral by 2028 Community Lawyering …

BYU Law was ranked 34th in this year's Go-To Law School List by The National Law Journal. The Go-To Law School List ranks law schools by percentage of 2009 J.D. graduates who were …