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Character
JAG Corps continues to draw from BYU Law
By Cami Buckley
April 19, 2020
New graduate Matt Fife's path of public service follows the footsteps of many BYU Law grads before him.
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Intellect
U.S. News rankings put three BYU grad programs in Top 50, eight more in Top 100
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 30, 2020
BYU's Master of Public Administration program joins the BYU MBA and BYU Law programs with elite marks. Other graduate programs, including Speech-Language Pathology, Education, Nursing and Engineering also land in the Top 100.
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Intellect
Lost Einsteins: Reducing poverty increases innovation
Joe Hadfield
By Joe Hadfield
January 27, 2020
Law professor and neuroscientist Stephanie Plamondon Bair is making a new case for laws aimed at reducing poverty: They will fuel economic growth through an untapped pool of innovators.
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Intellect
Succeeding out of your comfort zone
Joe Hadfield
By Joe Hadfield
December 11, 2019
A trio of BYU Law students entered and won the Utah Venture Capital Case Competition without any previous experience in the field.
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Intellect
BYU Law’s pipeline to the U.S. Supreme Court continues
March 27, 2019
More than a thousand attorneys apply each year to serve as clerks at the Supreme Court of the United States, but each justice can select only four.
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Character
Cougar Query: "Every time I travel, it changes the way I view the world"
By Erica Ostergar
September 13, 2018
Name: Carolina Núñez
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Announcements
New Grad School Rankings show BYU Law make big jump, Marriott School hold steady
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 19, 2018
BYU’s Law and Business Schools continue to be ranked among the best in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s annual Graduate School Rankings.

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Intellect
A pair of most-downloaded professors
Joe Hadfield
By Joe Hadfield
February 28, 2018
Clifton Fleming and Gladriel Shobe have rocketed to the top of the field of tax law, ranking in the top 20 for most-downloaded scholarly articles. 

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Intellect
The seven most underrated law schools
Joe Hadfield
By Joe Hadfield
December 06, 2017
BYU Law ranks No. 20 in the nation in a new study that judges law schools on evidence from the students. 

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Events
Conference on Religious Freedom to be held at BYU, July 6-7
By Kristine Hoyt
June 22, 2017
The BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies is inviting the public to a conference focused on the current state of religious freedom in schools, the workplace and in the public square. ​

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Announcements
BYU Law launches LawX, an idea incubator within a classroom
June 19, 2017
BYU Law School announced the launch of LawX, a legal design lab that will create products and other solutions to address the pressing issues relating to access to legal services. 

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Character
Law students serve victims of violence during break from school
Joe Hadfield
By Joe Hadfield
November 13, 2016
Four BYU Law students and their professor used a semester break break to volunteer at a detention center in Texas for women and children fleeing violence in their home country and seeking asylum in the United States.

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Intellect
BYU Prof Helps Pilot Sharia and Human Rights Masters Program in Indonesia
October 13, 2016
Ten years ago, BYU Law Professor Brett Scharffs gathered in a hall at a conference with a handful of other attendees and conceived an idea that would take a decade of academic persistence and collegiate engagement.

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Events
Conference on Religious Freedom to be held at BYU, July 7-8
May 31, 2016
Elder Lance B. Wickman, general counsel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Utah Valley University President Matthew S. Holland will be among the speakers at the Religious Freedom Annual Review. 

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Announcements
D. Gordon Smith named dean of BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School
March 25, 2016
Academic Vice President Brent W. Webb recently announced the appointment of D. Gordon Smith as dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

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Character
In a New Light: One BYU Law School student’s quest to fight prejudice and discrimination
March 17, 2016
Gauvin began to understand racial biases very differently when she had her two biracial sons. Her awareness became much deeper and more personal. She decided to go to law school to do something about it. 

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