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BYU law professor honors ancestors and advocates for tribal rights

By Melissa Jenson
June 11, 2025
With 574 tribes, countless treaties and evolving court decisions, Native American law can be a complex maze. BYU law professor Michalyn Steele has spent her career helping navigate that maze in defense of Native rights and sovereignty.
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Intellect

BYU professional programs land high marks, engineering makes big jump in U.S. News grad ranks

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 08, 2025
BYU’s law and business programs remained highly ranked in the 2025 U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings released today, while BYU’s engineering graduate programs made major jumps over previous marks.
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Devotional: Giving all our hearts to Christ

By Bitsy Tullis
October 01, 2024
Shima Baughman, the Woodruff J. Deem professor of law at the BYU Law School and a distinguished fellow at the Wheatley Institute, focused on the life-changing effects of offering one’s whole heart to Jesus Christ.
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Cougar Query: Shima Baughman

September 30, 2024
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life.
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BYU Law grad finds joy in lifting the marginalized, fostering belonging

By Christie Allen
April 22, 2024
With its forced grading curve, law school is infamously competitive. But when she started at BYU Law in her thirties, returning to the university as a mother with two degrees already under her belt, Carly Madsen decided that rankings wouldn’t define her achievement.
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Intellect

BYU study: Women’s involvement in U.N. peace negotiations essential for long-term security

By Christie Allen
July 13, 2023
Research has shown that the best predictor of a nation’s level of peace is how well its women are treated. Women also play an important role in directly brokering peace: when women are at the table, peace agreements are 35% more likely to last at least 15 years. Unfortunately, a landmark U.N. Security Council resolution on women, peace and security is somewhat toothless, according to a recent analysis led by BYU law researchers.

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Announcements

David H. Moore named dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School

June 27, 2023
David Moore, who joined BYU Law in 2008, will replace D. Gordon Smith on July 1.
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Justin Collings appointed academic vice president at Brigham Young University

June 21, 2023
Justin Collings, who is currently the associate academic vice president for faculty development, replaces C. Shane Reese who has been serving as president of BYU since May 1, 2023.
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Intellect

BYU grad programs shine in 2023-2024 edition of U.S. News rankings

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
May 16, 2023
Once again, BYU graduate programs shined in the newly released annual U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings, with the J. Reuben Clark Law School earning its highest ranking to date.
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Announcements

BYU Names New Life Sciences Dean and Associate Academic Vice President

April 20, 2022
Brigham Young University Academic Vice President C. Shane Reese announced two university leadership changes this week: Laura C. Bridgewater as dean of the College of Life Sciences and Justin Collings as the associate academic vice president for faculty development.
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Intellect

BYU Law leads list of BYU graduate programs moving up in U.S. News rankings

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
March 29, 2022
BYU Law has earned its highest U.S. News ranking to date, rocketing up six spots from last year and coming in at No. 23 in the 2023 Best Graduate School rankings released today. The Marriott School of Business once again ranks high and the BYU Nursing program makes a big jump.



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Intellect

Five BYU programs make Top 100 in latest US News Grad School Rankings; Nine BYU programs now hold that designation

March 30, 2021
The J. Reuben Clark Law School rocketed up to No. 29 in the 2022 edition of the U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings, leading a group of five BYU graduate programs that earned top marks.
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First responders honored on 9/11 through pro bono 'Wills for Heroes' project

September 14, 2020
Roughly 120 local first responders were assisted in completing their basic estate planning documents, free of charge, as BYU Law sponsored it’s second Wills for Heroes project last week.


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Faith

Elder Bednar says pandemic is a "wake-up call" for religious freedom

By Kaylee Esplin
June 18, 2020
Elder David A. Bednar, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke about the government's role in protecting religious freedom at the 2020 Religious Freedom Annual Review hosted by the Brigham Young University Law School.
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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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