R. Collin Mangrum
Professor Mangrum holds the A. A. & Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics; received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1972; his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Utah School of Law in 1974, where he was Associate Editor of the Law Review; his Bachelor of Civil Laws from Oxford University in 1978; and his Doctor of Judicial Science degree from Harvard University in 1983. He was in private practice in Salt Lake City from 1975-1977; was Rotary International Foundation Fellow in 1977 and in 1978; and he joined the Creighton faculty in 1979. He received a Visiting Scholar appointment to the University of Edinburgh in the fall of 1986. He has written articles for Creighton Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Utah Law Review, BYU Studies, and Mormon History Journal. His book Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1900 (1988) (University of Illinois Press) won the National Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for 1989. He teaches Advanced Trial Practice, Church and State, Evidence, History of American Legal Thought, Jurisprudence, and Scientific Evidence.
Courses Taught:
Advanced Trial Practice
Arbitration/Trial Law Theory
Evidence
Jurisprudence
Law of Church and State
Scientific Evidence