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.

1. Prepare students for meaningful careers and contributions in the diverse settings of a global legal market by focusing on the key competencies of a legal education grounded in legal theory, enhanced by experiential learning, and enlightened by the laws of God. A BYU legal education will:
   1. Afford students opportunities to develop leadership, transactional, and litigation skills.
   2. Equip students with cross-cultural competence, preparing them to engage and communicate effectively across difference.
   3. Inspire students to acquire and maintain the highest levels of professionalism, civility, and ethics.
   4. Embrace a whole-building approach, engaging every member of the BYU Law community in developing the professional competencies, character, and diversity of our students’ gifts.
2. Develop and facilitate world-class, innovative scholarship, and engage in respectful, civil dialogue that welcomes a diversity of voices and beliefs in an environment of intellectual honesty, academic freedom, and abiding faith.
3. Invite all members of our community to develop a service-oriented mindset and provide opportunities to use legal skills to aid those in need.
4. Instill respect for the U.S. Constitution, human rights, and the rule of law.