Kevin J. Worthen
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Kevin J. Worthen is the current dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.
[edit] Biography
Worthen was appointed to this position in February of 2004. [1]
Worthen is a Latter-day Saint and served a mission in Monterrey, Mexico. Worthen received an associates degree from the College of Eastern Utah and his bachelors degree from Brigham Young University.[2]
Worthen graduated at the top of his class from the BYU law school in 1982. For the next two years he was a clerk first for Malcolm R. Wilkey and then for Byron R. White.[3]
He is an expert in American Indian law. His theories on assimilation that grow out of this study are also widely repeated.[4] Worthen was a 1995 contributor to Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law.[5]
From 1984-1987 he practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1987 he became a member of the J. Reuben Clark Law School faculty. He spent one semester as a visiting instructor in Chile.
In 2002 Worthen served as vice chair of the Utah Constitution Revision Commission.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ New dean appointed to law school
- ^ Colorado Law :: Law Journals: The University of Colorado Law Review
- ^ Colorado Law :: Law Journals: The University of Colorado Law Review
- ^ Models of Assimilation and Diversity
- ^ Colorado Law :: Law Journals: The University of Colorado Law Review
- ^ http://www.le.state.ut.us/interim/2002/pdf/20020201.specrc.mn.01.pdf
