Faculty Profile

Jane Wise taught legal writing at BYU Law School for over twenty-five years, along with writing and editing for the law school publications and teaching the Law and Literature class. She taught online courses in legal writing for other universities and developed curricula for the American Legal Academy, including materials for law students in English as a second language. She became an associate director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at BYU Law. Through the Center, for a month in the summer, she teaches international students gathered at Oxford how to write academic articles in English.

She has written essays for nationally syndicated radio programs, newspapers, and magazines, as well as screenplays, edited books, contributed chapters to books, and has written for and lectured at legal conferences. She wrote the essays for Music and the Spoken Word for several years.

She clerked for the Utah Supreme Court and maintained a general law practice before entering academia.