About BYU Law

The BYU Law faculty is developing unique initiatives based on original scholarship. Those initiatives result in influential annual conferences, academic colloquia, and innovative course offerings and engaging experiential learning opportunities for students. BYU Law’s teaching mission extends beyond the boundaries of the classrooms with the goal to produce leaders within communities and throughout the world. As it makes advances in areas such as social change, transactional design, entrepreneurship, corpus linguistics, criminal justice, and religious freedom, the law school advances its commitment to empowering individuals and communities through the rule of law.

BYU Law receives support from and is affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a religiously affiliated law school, BYU Law provides an intellectually and spiritually invigorating community. The development of moral character and enlightened devotion to the rule of law are hallmarks of a BYU Law School education.

BYU Law recognizes the inherent dignity and equality of each individual and welcomes people from the full range of human experience. We are committed to the teachings of Jesus Christ and honor His many roles, including healer, mediator, counselor, peacemaker, advocate, lawgiver, and judge. In striving to emulate His example, we seek to be and develop people of integrity who combine faith and intellect in lifelong service to God and neighbor.

As a community, we aim to advance justice, mercy, liberty, opportunity, peace, and the rule of law. To these ends, BYU Law prioritizes inspiring teaching, rigorous study, and influential scholarship in an environment that values diversity, fosters unity, motivates excellence, nurtures leadership, promotes innovation, engenders empathy, and cultivates compassion.

• Students will gain knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law.
• Students will be able to competently engage in legal analysis, reasoning, and problem solving.
• Students will be able to perform competent legal research and effectively communicate both orally and in writing. 
• Students will be able to recognize and resolve ethical issues in light of ethical, moral, and religious principles.
• Students will develop a values-based professional identity, interpersonal skills, and the ability to create and foster positive professional relationships.
• Students will receive a legal education that is intellectually enlarging, spiritually strengthening, character building, and encourages commitment to lifelong learning and service.