PROVO, Utah, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU
Law, a leading national law school focused on innovation in the
legal field, today announced the selected participants of BYU
LawStories, a storytelling initiative open to law school students
in the United States.
Law school students across the country were asked to submit a
nonfiction narrative of 1,000 to 1,500 words that tied together
their life and the law. This inaugural initiative garnered 40
submissions from students at 28 different law schools from coast to
coast.
Gordon Smith, Dean of BYU Law
congratulated the following selected participants, whose names,
submission titles and law schools are listed below:
- "The Merits of Applause," Dorie
Arthur, University of
Richmond School of Law, Virginia
- "The World Was Designed for People Like Me," Erin Bartenstein, University of Wisconsin Law School, Wisconsin
- "The Law: Comingling Life and Death," Lora Church, University
of New Mexico School of Law, New
Mexico
- "Slow Down," Walter
Garcia, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law,
Illinois
- "A Is for Animus," Sloane
Henry, University of
Florida, Levin College of
Law, Florida
- "After the Order," Vanessa
Kubota, Arizona State
University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona
- "Me v. Astrophysics v. the Drug Wars v. Queen of England II,"
Erling Oster, University of Nevada Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
- "They Don't Wait for White Men's Chances," Katie Rane, Brigham
Young University, J. Reuben Clark
Law School, Utah
- "Catch and Release," Shaunna
Sanders, Brigham Young
University, J. Reuben Clark Law
School, Utah
- "War Songs, Wounded Sounds," Carlisle Shelson, University of Illinois College of Law, Illinois
"Congratulations to these outstanding authors whose compelling
stories illuminate the transcendent power of law in our daily
lives," said Gordon Smith, Dean, BYU
Law. "We believe initiatives like BYU LawStories can
help further prepare students for their legal careers, and we
are pleased to recognize these students in the inaugural BYU
LawStories initiative."
Selected storytellers received an expenses-paid trip to
Brigham Young University's campus March
13–16 where they presented their nonfiction narrative stories tying
together their life and law at BYU LawStories on the
Mainstage, a public storytelling event. Before their
presentations, participants received a half-day seminar on
storytelling taught by Sam Payne,
who hosts "The Apple Seed: Tellers and Stories" – a national radio
show. At the conclusion of the seminar, participants recorded their
stories for broadcast at state-of-the-art BYUradio studio.
About BYU Law School
Founded in 1971, the J.
Reuben Clark Law School (BYU Law)
has grown into one of the nation's leading law schools – recognized
for innovative research and teaching in social change,
transactional design, entrepreneurship, corpus linguistics,
criminal justice, and religious freedom. The Law School has
more than 6,000 alumni serving in communities around the world. In
its most recent rankings, SoFi ranked BYU Law as the #1 best-value
U.S. law school in their 2017 Return on Education Law School
Ranking. For more information, visit http://www.law.byu.edu/.
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