R. Collin Mangrum, BA, BCL, JD, SJD

AA and Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics

Professor

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Contact

RICHARDMANGRUM@creighton.edu
School of Law
Faculty - Law

R. Collin Mangrum, BA, BCL, 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 and Benson on Utah evidence 2025
  • Mangrum R. Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2025
  • Mangrum R. Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2024
  • Mangrum R. Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2024
  • Mangrum R. Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2023
  • Mangrum R. Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2022
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2021
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2020
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2019
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2018
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2017
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2016
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Benson Dee, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2015
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2014
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2013
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2012
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2011
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2010
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum on Nebraska evidence 2010
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2009
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2008
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2007
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2006
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2005
  • Benson Dee, Mangrum Richard Collin, Mangrum and Benson on Utah evidence 2004
  • 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
  • Firmage Edwin Brown, Mangrum Richard Collin, Zion in the courts 1988

Book, Chapter/Section

  • Religion & the Family
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Religion, the family, and the public school during non-school hours [Book Chapter] 2008
  • International Perspectives on Church and State
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Religious freedom in the public schools [Book Chapter] 1993

General

  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Sacred rights of conscience 2012
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Challenging the scope of free exercise 1998
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, Kidnapped from that land 1995
  • Mangrum Richard Collin, The constitutional implications of public school graduation prayers 1993
  • Firmage Edwin Brown, Mangrum Richard Collin, Knowledge and politics 1975

Articles

  • Nebraska Lawyer
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The admissibility and ethics of social media evidence
    22:4, p. 23 - 29 2019
  • Creighton University Magazine
    Mangrum Richard Collin, A legal perspective, p. 22 - 23 2006
  • Prairie Barrister
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Learned treatise hearsay exception
    5:2, p. 3 - 7 1999
  • Creighton Lawyer
    Mangrum Richard Collin, A new expert evidence standard, p. 10 - 15 1994

Publications

  • Creighton law review
    Mangrum R. Collin, Comment on the proposed revision of federal rule of evidence 702
    56:1, p. 97 - 108 2022
  • Liberty University Law Review
    Mangrum Wells, Mangrum R. Collin, Evidence-based medicine in expert testimony
    13, p. 337 - 385 2019
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, I believe, the Golden Rule, send a message, and other improper closing arguments
    48:3, p. 521 - 552 2015
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Shall we sing?
    38:4, p. 815 - 870 2005
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Good News Club v. Milford Central School
    35:4, p. 1023 - 1074 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, p. 31 - 114 2001
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Stenburg v. Carhart
    34:3, p. 549 - 609 2001
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Kumho Tire Company
    33:3, p. 525 - 564 2000
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Tithing, bankruptcy and the conflict between religious freedom and creditor's interests
    32:3, p. 815 - 848 1999
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, State aid to students in religiously affiliated schools
    31:4, p. 1155 - 1208 1998
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The falling star of free exercise
    31:3, p. 693 - 740 1998
  • Creighton law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Nebraska's evidentiary rules on relevancy
    29:1, p. 119 - 218 1995
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Nebraska's procedural rules of evidence
    29:1, p. 219 - 294 1995
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Nebraska's evidentiary rules regarding witnesses
    28:1, p. 55 - 148 1994
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Opinion and expert testimony in Nebraska
    27:1, p. 85 - 145 1993
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Shall we pray?
    26:4, p. 1027 - 1052 1993
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The original writing rule in Nebraska
    26:1, p. 61 - 96 1992
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The law of hearsay in Nebraska
    25:2, p. 499 - 576 1992
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Religious constraints during visitation
    24:2, p. 445 - 494 1991
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Evidentiary privilege in Nebraska
    23:2, p. 235 - 287 1990
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Extracurricular religious activities in the public schools
    22:4, p. 955 - 1006 1989
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Judicial notice in Nebraska
    22:2, p. 379 - 412 1989
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Family rights and compulsory school laws
    21:4, p. 1019 - 1045 1988
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Handling expert testimony in Nebraska
    21:2, p. 509 - 531 1988
  • Brigham Young University Studies
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Mormonism, philosophical liberalism, and the Constitution
    27:3, p. 119 - 137 1987
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Doesn't anyone in Nebraska realize that pretrial identification testimony raises hearsay as well as constitutional Issues?
    20:2, p. 335 - 359 1987
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Naming religion (and eligible cognates) in tax exemption cases
    19:4, p. 821 - 858 1986
  • Journal of Mormon History
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Furthering the cause of Zion
    10, p. 79 - 90 1983
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, In search of a paradigm of corporate social responsibility
    17:1, p. 21 - 70 1983
  • Creighton law review
    Mangrum R. Collin, In memoriam
    15:2, p. xvi 1982
  • Creighton Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Exclusive reliance on best interest may be unconstitutional
    15:1, p. 25 - 82 1981
  • Duke Law Journal
    Firmage Edwin Brown, Mangrum Richard Collin, Removal of the President
    1974:6, p. 1023 - 1116 1974
  • Utah Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, The need for counsel in the juvenile justice syste
    1974:2, p. 333 - 377 1974
  • Utah Law Review
    Mangrum Richard Collin, Confrontation
    1973:4, p. 839 - 850 1973