Faculty
Immigration Detention – Social Change
Faculty and students from BYU Law travel to Dilley, Texas, each semester to spend a week representing women and children asylum seekers who are in an immigration detention facility awaiting their credible fear interviews.
Winter Deals Conference – Transactional Design
BYU Law Winter Deals Conference features state-of-the-art research on topics related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), venture capital, corporate and sovereign debt, transaction design, corporate governance and blockchain contracting.
Platform for Legal Corpora
In his Carpenter v. United States dissent in June 2018, Justice Clarence Thomas gave the first-ever SCOTUS nod to corpus linguistics when he cited 3 BYU corpora in his footnote 4.
J. Clifton Fleming, Jr., Ernest L. Wilkinson Chair and professor of law, joined the BYU faculty in 1974. Fleming served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1986 to 1999 and as Associate Dean for Faculty and Curriculum from 1999 to 2004. He was appointed to the Wilkinson Chair in 1998. In 1985-86, he was…
Professor Gladriel Shobe joined the BYU Law faculty in 2016. Prior to joining BYU, she worked as a tax associate at Weil, Gothsal & Manges in New York City from 2012 to 2016, where she represented public corporations and private equity funds in a variety of complex corporate transactions. Professor Shobe is a leading expert…
Professor Jarrod Shobe joined the BYU Law faculty in July 2016. Prior to coming to BYU, Professor Shobe worked as a tax associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City primarily representing investors in private equity and hedge funds. Professor Shobe is an expert in partnership taxation and complex corporate and partnership structures, including…