David Dominguez
Professor of Law

544 JRCB
(801) 422-3739
dominguezd@lawgate.byu.edu

Vitae and Curriculum

Education:

BA 1977 (with honors), Yale University; JD 1980, University of California, Berkeley.

Experience:

Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, 1980-88; Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1980-89; Assistant to the Provost, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-89. Joined J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1989.

Background:

Professor David Dominguez grew up in south central Los Angeles. He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1977 (B.A., Religious Studies). He received his Juris Doctor from University of California at Berkeley Law School in 1980. From 1980 to 1988 he practiced law as a trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board. During this time he also worked at UC Berkeley as a part-time undergraduate instructor, teaching legal analysis and multicultural negotiation, and as an Assistant to the Undergraduate Provost. In 1989 he joined the law faculty at Brigham Young University where his subjects include community lawyering, legal problem-solving for equal justice, criminal law, legal negotiation and settlement, labor law, individual employment rights, and public policy negotiation. He writes in the fields of workplace law, public interest, law school instructional innovation, and the role of the legal actor in achieving social justice.