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R. Collin Mangrum, JD, SJD

AA and Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics

Professor

R. Collin Mangrum

Contact

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

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

  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2021-2022) ed. 2022
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (2021 ed. 2021). https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/handle/10504/134538, 2021
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2020-2021) ed. 2020
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (2020) ed. 2020
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE, ed. 2019
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE, 2018 ed. 2018
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE, 2018-2019 ed. 2018
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Mangrum on Nebraska Evidence, ed.  2017
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE, 2017-2018 ed. 2017
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE, ed. 2017
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE, 2016 ed. 2016
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE, 2015-2016 ed. 2015
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE, 2015 ed. 2015
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE, 2014-2015 ed. 2014
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE, 2014 ed. 2014
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2013-2014 ed. 2013). 2013
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (2013 ed. 2013). 2013
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2012-2013 ed. 2012). 2012
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (2012 ed. 2012). 2012
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2011-2012) 2011
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (2011 ed. 2011). 2011
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2010-2011) 2010
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (ed. 2010) 2010
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2009-2010) 2009
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (ed. 2009) 2009
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2008-2009) 2008
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (ed. 2008) 2008
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Religion, the Family, and the Public School During Non-School Hours: Good News v. Milford, in RELIGION & THE FAMILY 135 (Ronald A. Simkins & Gail S. Risch eds., 2008). 2008
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2007-2008) 2007
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (ed. 2007) 2007
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2006-2007) 2006
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE (ed. 2006) 2006
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2005-2006) 2005
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE, 2005 ed. 2005
  • R. Collin Mangrum & Dee Benson, MANGRUM AND BENSON ON UTAH EVIDENCE (2004-2005) 2004
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 2004
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 2003
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON A FOUNDATIONAL APPROACH TO THE NEBRASKA RULES OF EVIDENCE 2002
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 2002
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 2001
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 2000
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 1999
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 1998
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 1997
  • R. Collin Mangrum, MANGRUM ON NEBRASKA EVIDENCE 1996
  • Richard Collin Mangram, Religious Freedom in the Public Schools, in INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHURCH AND STATE 175 (Menachem Mor) 1993
  • Edwin Brown Firmage & Richard Collin Mangrum, ZION IN THE COURTS: A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, 1830-1900 1988

Articles

  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Comment, Comment on the Proposed Revision of Federal Rule of Evidence 702: “Clarifying” the Court’s Gatekeeping Responsibility over Expert Testimony, 56 CREIGHTON L. REV. 97 2022
  • R. Collin Mangrum, The Admissibility and Ethics of Social Media Evidence, Neb. Law. July/Aug. 2019, at 23.https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/handle/10504/124398 2019
  • Wells Mangrum & Richard Collin Mangrum, Evidence-Based Medicine in Expert Testimony, 13 Liberty U.L. Rev. 337 2019
  • R. Collin Mangrum, I Believe, the Golden Rule, Send a Message, and Other Improper Closing Arguments, 48 Creighton L. Rev. 521 2015
  • R. Collin Mangrum, A Legal Perspective: Free Exercise vs. the Establishment Clause, Creighton U. Mag., Winter 2006, at 22. 2006
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Shall We Sing? Shall We Sing Religious Music in Public Schools?, 38 Creighton L. Rev. 815 2005
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Good News Club v. Milford Central School: Teaching Morality from a Religious Perspective on School Premises After Hours, 35 Creighton L. Rev. 1023 2002
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, 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 Creighton L. Rev. 31 2001
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Stenburg v. Carhart: Poor Interpretivist Analysis, Unreliable Expert Testimony, and the Immorality of the Court’s Validation of Partial-Birth Abortion Legislation, 34 Creighton L. Rev. 549 2001
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Kumho Tire Company: The Expansion of the Court’s Role in Screening Every Aspect of Every Expert’s Testimony at Every Stage of the Proceedings, 33 Creighton L. Rev. 525 2000
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Tithing, Bankruptcy and the Conflict Between Religious Freedom and Creditor’s Interests, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 815 1999
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Learned Treatise Hearsay Exception, Prairie Barrister, 1999 no. 2, at 3. 1999
  • R. Collin Mangrum, State Aid to Students in Religiously Affiliated Schools: Agostini v. Felton, 31 Creighton L. Rev. 1155 1998
  • R. Collin Mangrum, The Falling Star of Free Exercise: Free Exercise and Substantive Due Process Entitlement Claims in City of Boerne v. Flores, 31 Creighton L. Rev. 693 (1998). 1998
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Challenging the Scope of Free Exercise, Newsl. (Ctr. for the Study of Religion & Soc’y), Spring 1998. 1998
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Nebraska’s Evidentiary Rules on Relevancy, 29 Creighton L. Rev. 119 1995
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Nebraska’s Procedural Rules of Evidence, 29 Creighton L. Rev 1995
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Nebraska’s Evidentiary Rules Regarding Witnesses, 28 Creighton L. Rev. 55 (1994), reprinted in EVIDENCE FOR THE NEBRASKA PRACTITIONER (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1994
  • R. Collin Mangrum, A New Expert Evidence Standard, CREIGHTON LAW., Fall 1994, at 10 1994
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, The Constitutional Implications of Public School Graduation Prayers, Newsl. (Ctr. for the Study of Religion & Soc’y), Fall 1993
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Opinion and Expert Testimony in Nebraska, 27 Creighton L. Rev. 85 (1993), reprinted in EVIDENCE FOR THE NEBRASKA PRACTITIONER (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1993
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Shall We Pray? Graduation Prayers and Establishment Paradigms, 26 Creighton L. Rev. 1027 1993
  • R. Collin Mangrum, The Original Writing Rule in Nebraska, 26 Creighton L. Rev. 61 (1992), reprinted in EVIDENCE FOR THE NEBRASKA PRACTITIONER (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1992
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, The Law of Hearsay in Nebraska, 25 Creighton L. Rev. 499 (1992), reprinted in EVIDENCE FOR THE NEBRASKA PRACTITIONER (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1992
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Religious Constraints During Visitation: Under What Circumstances Are They Constitutional?, 24 Creighton L. Rev. 445 1991
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Evidentiary Privilege in Nebraska, 23 Creighton L. Rev. 235 (1990), reprinted in EVIDENCE FOR THE NEBRASKA PRACTITIONER (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1990
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Extracurricular Religious Activities in the Public Schools: Constitutionally Permissible, Required or Proscribed, 22 Creighton L. Rev. 955 1989
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Judicial Notice in Nebraska, 22 Creighton L. Rev. 379 (1989), reprinted in EVIDENCE FOR THE NEBRASKA PRACTITIONER (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1989
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Family Rights and Compulsory School Laws, 21 Creighton L. Rev. 1019 1988
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Handling Expert Testimony in Nebraska: Lessons from Recent Cases, 21 Creighton L. Rev. 509 1988
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Mormonism, Philosophical Liberalism, and the Constitution, BYU Stud., Summer 1987, at 119 1987
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Doesn’t Anyone in Nebraska Realize that Pretrial Identification Testimony Raises Hearsay as Well as Constitutional Issues?, 20 Creighton L. Rev. 335 1987
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Naming Religion (and Eligible Cognates) in Tax Exemption Cases, 19 Creighton L. Rev. 821 1986
  • R. Collin Mangrum, In Search of a Paradigm of Corporate Social Responsibility, 17 Creighton L. Rev. 21 1983
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Furthering the Cause of Zion: An Overview of the Mormon Ecclesiastical Court System in Utah, 10 J. Mormon Hist. 79 1983
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Dedication, In Memoriam: Dan Scott Greene, 15 Creighton L. Rev. x (Spring) 1982
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Exclusive Reliance on Best Interest May Be Unconstitutional: Religion as a Factor in Child Custody Cases, 15 Creighton L. Rev. 25 1981
  • Edwin Brown Firmage & R. Collin Mangrum, Removal of the President: Resignation and the Procedural Law of Impeachment, 1974 Duke L.J. 1023 1974
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Note, The Need for Counsel in the Juvenile Justice System: Due Process Overdue? 1974 Utah L. Rev. 333 1974
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Comment, Confrontation: A Trial Right? – United States v. Singleton, 1973 Utah L. Rev. 839 1973

Publications

  • R. Collin Mangrum, Video File: Affirmative Action: Constitutional Perspective, held by Creighton University Affirmative Action (May 1, 2008). 2008
  • Collin Mangrum, Recent Developments in Evidence, in THE 2006 YLS PRACTICE SEMINAR (Neb. State Bar Ass’n ed., 2006). 2006
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Article II: Judicial Notice in Nebraska, in FAMILY LAW UPDATE 2004 (Neb. Continuing Legal Educ) 2004
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Interpreting Nebraska's Expert Testimony Evidentiary Rules as Applied to the Family Law Context After the Nebraska Supreme Court Adopted the Federal Daubert Standard for the Admissibility of Expert Testimony in Schafersman v. Aglan Coop, in FAMILY LAW UPDATE TRIALS AND TRAVAILS: PRACTICAL INFORMATION YOU CAN USE IN THE FAMILY LAW ARENA (Neb. Continuing Legal Educ) 2003
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Rules Governing Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege, in CORPORATE LITIGATION: A PRACTICAL APPROACH (Neb. Continuing Legal Educ) 1999
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Recent Developments: Nebraska Evidence, in EVIDENCE IS AN ACTION VERB: AN EVIDENCE SEMINAR FOR THE SERIOUS TRIAL LAWYER (Neb. Continuing Legal Educ) 1997
  • Richard Collin Mangrum, School Prayer Controversy, in THE 1996 LAW DAY FOR THE CLERGY (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1996
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Article 8 – Hearsay, in NEBRASKA RULES OF EVIDENCE (Neb. Continuing Legal Educ) 1987
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Article 5 – Privileges, in NEBRASKA RULES OF EVIDENCE (Neb. Continuing Legal Educ.) 1984
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Privileges, in SECOND ANNUAL FEDERAL PRACTICE SEMINAR (Drake Univ. Law Sch) 1982
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work Product Doctrine, in FIRST ANNUAL FEDERAL PRACTICE SEMINAR (Creighton Univ. Sch. of Law) 1981

Editing and Reviews

  • Richard Collin Mangrum, Book Review, 52 Am. J. Legal Hist. 224 (2012) (reviewing Daniel L. Dreisbach & Mark David Hall eds., THE SACRED RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE: SELECTED READINGS ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS IN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING (2009)). 2012
  • R. Collin Mangrum, Book Review, 37 J. Church & St. 431 (1995) (reviewing Martha Sonntag Bradley, KIDNAPPED FROM THAT LAND: THE GOVERNMENT RAIDS ON THE SHORT CREEK POLYGAMISTS 1995
  • Edwin Brown Firmage & R. Collin Mangrum, Book Review, 1975 Utah L. Rev. 863 (reviewing Roberto Mangabeira Unger, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS) 1975