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R. Collin Mangrum, JD, SJD

AA and Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics

Professor

Contact

RICHARDMANGRUM@creighton.edu
School of Law
Faculty - Law
LAWC - Ahmanson Law Center - 269

R. Collin Mangrum, JD, SJD

AA and Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics

Professor

Richard Collin Mangrum, JD, BCL, SJD, is the AA and Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics at the Creighton University School of Law. 

Professor Mangrum graduated Magna Cum laude from Harvard University in 1972.  He then attended the University of Utah School of Law, where Professor Mangrum was associate editor of the Law Review, graduating with his J.D. in 1975.  He was in private practice in Salt Lake City from 1975-1977; was Rotary International Foundation Fellow in 1977 to Oxford, England where he received his B.C.L. in 1978; he received his S.J.D from Harvard Law School in 1983.  Professor Mangrum joined the Creighton law faculty in 1979. Professor became the AA and Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair holder in 2000.  Professor Mangrum received the Robert Kennedy Memorial Award for the Outstanding University Professor for Creighton University in 2001.  Professor Mangrum received the Outstanding Professor Award for Creighton Law School in 2006. He received a visiting scholar appointment to the University of Edinburgh in the fall of 1986. He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Utah law School in 1985, 1996, 2004. 2006 and 2013. He was a visiting professor for Touro Law School at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for the summer of 2008.

He has written over thirty articles and three books. 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. His treatise, Mangrum on Nebraska Evidence (Thomsen Reuters, annual 2003-2019), serves as a primary source for practitioners and is frequently cited by the Nebraska courts on evidentiary issues. His treatise, Mangrum and Benson on Utah Evidence (Thomsen Reuters, annual 2004-2019) also serves as a primary source for Utah practitioners and is frequently cited by the courts in Utah. He regularly lectures to practitioners and the judiciary on evidentiary issues in Nebraska and Utah. He has successfully coached trial teams for the Texas Young Lawyers Trial Competition (TYLA) or National Trial Competition and the American Association of Justice (formerly ATLA) every year since 1989. He has also successfully coached teams for the ABA Arbitration Competition since 2008.

Research Focus

Evidence; Jurisprudence; Church and State; Constitutional Rights

Department

Law

Position

Professor

Books

  • Mangrum R. Collin, Mangrum & Benson on Utah evidence 2023
  • Mangrum R. Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2022
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2021
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2020
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2019
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2018
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2017
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2017
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2016
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2016
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2015
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2015
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2014
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2014
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2013
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2013
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2012
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2012
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2011
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2011
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2010
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2010
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2009
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2009
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2008
  • Religion & the Family
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Religion, the family, and the public school during non-school hours 2008
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2008
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2007
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2007
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2006
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2006
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2005
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2005
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2004
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2004
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2003
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on a foundational approach to the Nebraska Rules of evidence 2002
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2002
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2001
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2000
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 1999
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 1998
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 1997
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 1996
  • International Perspectives on Church and State
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Religious freedom in the public schools 1993
  • Firmage Edwin Brown, Zion in the courts 1988

Articles

  • Nebraska Lawyer
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The admissibility and ethics of social media evidence
    22:4 2019
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Sacred rights of conscience 2012
  • Creighton University Magazine
    Mangrum Richard Collin, A legal perspective 2006
  • Prairie Barrister
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Learned treatise hearsay exception
    5:2 1999
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Challenging the scope of free exercise 1998
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Kidnapped from that land 1995
  • Creighton Lawyer
    Mangrum Richard Collin, A new expert evidence standard 1994
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, The constitutional implications of public school graduation prayers 1993
  • Firmage Edwin Brown, Knowledge and politics 1975

Publications

  • Liberty University Law Review
    Mangrum Wells, Evidence-based medicine in expert testimony
    13 2019
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, I believe, the Golden Rule, send a message, and other improper closing arguments
    48:3 2015
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Shall we sing?
    38:4 2005
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Good News Club v. Milford Central School
    35:4 2002
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Interpreting Nebraska Rule of Evidence 702 after the Nebraska Supreme Court adopted the federal Daubert standard for the admissibility of expert testimony in Schafersman v. Agland Coop
    35:1 2001
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, State aid to students in religiously affiliated schools
    31:4 1998
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The falling star of free exercise
    31:3 1998
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Opinion and expert testimony in Nebraska
    27:1 1993
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Shall we pray?
    26:4 1993
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The original writing rule in Nebraska
    26:1 1992
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The law of hearsay in Nebraska
    25:2 1992
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Religious constraints during visitation
    24:2 1991
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Evidentiary privilege in Nebraska
    23:2 1990
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Extracurricular religious activities in the public schools
    22:4 1989
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Judicial notice in Nebraska
    22:2 1989
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Family rights and compulsory school laws
    21:4 1988
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Handling expert testimony in Nebraska
    21:2 1988
  • Brigham Young University Studies
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Mormonism, philosophical liberalism, and the Constitution
    27:3 1987
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Naming religion (and eligible cognates) in tax exemption cases
    19:4 1986
  • Journal of Mormon History
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Furthering the cause of Zion
    10 1983
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, In search of a paradigm of corporate social responsibility
    17:1 1983
  • Creighton law review
    Mangrum R. Collin, In memoriam
    15:2 1982
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Exclusive reliance on best interest may be unconstitutional
    15:1 1981
  • Duke Law Journal
    Firmage Edwin Brown, Removal of the President
    1974:6 1974
  • Utah Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The need for counsel in the juvenile justice syste
    1974:2 1974
  • Utah Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Confrontation
    1973:4 1973

Presentations

  • Affirmative action 2008
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