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Law school dean to discuss Atonement, restitution at BYU devotional Oct. 23

James Rasband, dean of  the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, will give an address titled “Faith to Forgive Grievous Harm: Accepting the Atonement as Restitution” during a campus devotional Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

The devotional will be broadcast live on the BYU Broadcasting channels and online at byutv.org. Rebroadcast and archive information will be available at byutv.org and speeches.byu.edu.

A BYU alumnus, Rasband received his juris doctorate from Harvard University in 1989. He was a law clerk in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and an attorney for Perkins Coie before joining the BYU law faculty in 1995, where he is the Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law.

His primary areas of expertise are public land law (including public lands legal history), water law, wilderness and grazing law, regulations covering the national park and national monuments and international environmental law.

For more information, contact James Rasband, (801) 422-6383, rasbandj@law.byu.edu.

Writer: Hwa Lee

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