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The J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU Law or JRCLS) is the law school of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah.Founded in 1973, the school is named after J. Reuben Clark, a former U.S. Ambassador, Undersecretary of State, and general authority of the institution's sponsoring organization, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
The history of Brigham Young University (BYU) begins in 1875, when the school was called Brigham Young Academy (BYA). The school did not reach university status until 1903, in a decision made by the school's board of trustees at the request of BYU president Benjamin Cluff .
School Year founded Year closed Arizona Arizona Summit Law School, [50] InfiLaw System: 2005 2019 California Whittier Law School: 1966 2019 California California Southern University [51] (correspondence) 1978 2022 California Pacific West College of Law [52] 1993 2024 California (San Luis Obispo)
October 1903 – December 1903 (President of Brigham Young University) [1] (As of October 1903: Presidents of Brigham Young University) 4 George H. Brimhall: April 1904 – July 1921 [1] 5 Franklin S. Harris: July 1921 – June 1945 [1] 6 Howard S. McDonald: July 1945 – October 1949 [1] 7 Ernest L. Wilkinson: February 1951 – July 1971 [1] 8 ...
1st dean of the BYU Marriott School of Business [42] Astrid S. Tuminez: 1986 B.A. 7th president of Utah Valley University [43] Dale A. Whitman: 1963 B.S. Former dean of the University of Missouri School of Law; former president of the Association of American Law Schools [44] O. Meredith Wilson: 1934 B.A.
The three Ivy League universities that do not offer law degrees are Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton; they are the smallest universities in the Ivy League by enrollment. All five Ivy League law schools are consistently ranked among the top 14 law schools in the nation or T14. [1]
The Princeton Review has also ranked BYU the "#1 stone-cold sober school" in the nation for 22 consecutive years, [181] most likely due to students' adherence to the university's Honor Code. Additionally, according to the Uniform Crime Reports , incidents of crime in Provo are lower than the national average, with murder classified as very rare ...
In 1987, Worthen returned to BYU as a member of the JRCL's faculty and served as its dean from 2004 to 2008. [4] As a Fulbright Scholar, he also spent a year working as a visiting instructor at University of Chile Law School in 1994. [1] Worthen is an expert in American Indian law.