Education:
BA 1976 (summa cum laude) and JD 1979 (summa cum laude), Brigham Young University. University Honors: editor-in-chief, Brigham Young University Law Review; J. Reuben Clark scholar; Order of the Coif.
Experience:
Judicial clerk, Judge Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; Assistant to the Solicitor General of the U.S., 1981-84; current Director, NGO Family Voice: The World Family Policy Center. Joined J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1984. 2-week 42-hour course on Human Rights and International Law at the College of International Affairs (Bejing, China, May 2002).
Classes Taught:
The Fourteenth Amendment, Structures of the Constitution, International Organizations
Publications:
Editorial:
Washington Times, June 17, 2001, "U.S. Deserves Praise for Negotiating Habitat + 5"
Chapters in Books:
"Defending the Family Through International Policy," Strengthening Our Families, Center for Studies of the Family, Bookcraft (2000) (omitted inadvertently from year 2000 report)
"The International Criminal Court, Human Rights, and the Family," Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nation's Record on Human Rights, University Press of America, Teresa Wagner and Leslie Carbone, editors (2001)
Peer-Review Journals:
"Supreme Court Voting Behavior: 1998 Term," 27 Hastings Const. L. Q. 423 (2001)
"Protecting Marriage and Family in a Global Society," Encounters: Journal of Inter-cultural Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 2, September 2001 at 223 (reprinted by Serendib Research Institute, International Studies, October 2001, Sri Lanka)
"The Central Role of Family and Marriage in a Global Society," Journal of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic, No. 5, Issue 1 1999-2000 at 28-55 (University of Peshawar 2000)
"The Constitutionality of Legal Preferences for Heterosexual Marriage," Vol. 15 The Family in America, No. 6 (The Howard Center 2001)
"The International Criminal Court and Social Engineering," The National Observer, Autumn 2001, Number 48 at 13 (Australian Council for the Public Interest) (reprinted by Verein zur Forderung der Psychologischen Menschenkenntnis, Mut Zur Ethik, November 2001, Zurich, Switzerland)
Completed Works at Press:
"Protecting the family and marriage in a global society," a chapter published in Collected papers of the International Conference on Human Rights and Dialogue of Civilization, 297– 314 (Mofid University, Tehran Iran 2001) (ISBN No. 964-92879-2-2).
"Supreme Court Voting Behavior: 1999 Term" Vol. 28, No. 4, Hastings Constitutional Law Journal (forthcoming; Hastings has not issued its final quarterly journal for 20001; the article will be in that edition)
"The Constitutionality of Legal Preferences for Heterosexual Marriage," a chapter in forthcoming book to be published by Greenwood Press (expanded version of article originally printed in The Family In America)
Works in Progress:
Compilation and editing of a volume on the writings of J. Reuben Clark on Constitutional Law and International law; the compilation is now complete – work is proceeding on writing scholarly introductions to each chapter of the volume.
Analysis of the potential ramifications of the International Criminal Court on U.S. domestic law
Analysis of International Conventions and Conferences dealing with family relationships
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