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“Sometimes the pursuit of academic and professional excellence and the pursuit of discipleship are framed as being in tension with each other,” William Clayton said in his devotional address. “My experience is that these pursuits can actually reinforce each other in important ways when we keep our eye single to the glory of God.”
With 574 tribes, countless treaties and evolving court decisions, Native American law can be a complex maze. BYU law professor Michalyn Steele has spent her career helping navigate that maze in defense of Native rights and sovereignty.
BYU’s law and business programs remained highly ranked in the 2025 U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings released today, while BYU’s engineering graduate programs made major jumps over previous marks.
Shima Baughman, the Woodruff J. Deem professor of law at the BYU Law School and a distinguished fellow at the Wheatley Institute, focused on the life-changing effects of offering one’s whole heart to Jesus Christ.
Cougar Queries is a series profiling BYU employees by asking them questions about their work, interests and life.
With its forced grading curve, law school is infamously competitive. But when she started at BYU Law in her thirties, returning to the university as a mother with two degrees already under her belt, Carly Madsen decided that rankings wouldn’t define her achievement.
Research has shown that the best predictor of a nation’s level of peace is how well its women are treated. Women also play an important role in directly brokering peace: when women are at the table, peace agreements are 35% more likely to last at least 15 years. Unfortunately, a landmark U.N. Security Council resolution on women, peace and security is somewhat toothless, according to a recent analysis led by BYU law researchers.

David Moore, who joined BYU Law in 2008, will replace D. Gordon Smith on July 1.
Justin Collings, who is currently the associate academic vice president for faculty development, replaces C. Shane Reese who has been serving as president of BYU since May 1, 2023.
Once again, BYU graduate programs shined in the newly released annual U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings, with the J. Reuben Clark Law School earning its highest ranking to date.