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Law professor John W. Welch at BYU devotional Sept. 30

John W. Welch, the Robert K. Thomas Professor of Law at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School, will speak at a university devotional Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

The devotional will be broadcast live on KBYU (Channel 11), KBYU-FM (89.1), BYU-Television and BYU-Radio satellite networks and on byubroadcasting.org.

It will be rebroadcast Sunday, Oct. 5, on KBYU (Channel 11) at 6 a.m. and 11 a.m., on BYU-Television at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., on KBYU-FM (89.1) at 8 p.m. and on BYU-Radio at 6 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Welch has been a BYU law professor since 1980. He has a doctorate from Duke University and practiced law in Los Angeles for five years prior to coming to the law school.

Welch received bachelor's and master's degrees from BYU in 1970 and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Oxford University from 1970 to 1972.

In addition to teaching at the law school, Welch has been the founding director of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, is the editor-in-chief of BYU Studies and director of publications for the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History.

Writer: Thomas Grover

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Photo by Mark A. Philbrick/BYU Photo

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