David H. Moore

About David H. Moore

David Moore is the ninth dean of Brigham Young University Law School. Since its founding in the 1970s, BYU Law has become one of the nation\'s leading law schools. It focuses on the whole person,\"develop[ing] people of integrity who combine faith and intellect in lifelong service to God and neighbor.\"(BYU Law Mission Statement) Dean Moore is a scholar of foreign relations law, international law, international human rights, and international development. His publications appear in the Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and Virginia Law Reviews, among others. As a teacher, he has received BYU\'s Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education and R. Wayne Hansen Teaching and Learning Fellowship. At BYU Law, he has been named the Alumni Association Teacher of the Year, the Student Bar Association First Year Professor of the Year, and has received the Student Bar Association Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Adviser on the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. A human rights expert, Dean Moore was elected in 2020 to a brief term on the U.N. Human Rights Committee. From 2019 to 2023, he was as an Associate Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies. Between 2017 and 2019, Dean Moore served, variously, as the Acting Deputy Administrator and General Counsel of the U.S. Agency for International Development. From 2016 to 2017, he was the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs at BYU Law. He was a Visiting Professor at George Washington University Law School from 2008 to 2009. Before joining BYU, Dean Moore clerked for Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. during the Supreme Court’s 2007 Term. From 2003 to 2007, he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He researched and taught at the University of Chicago Law School as an Olin Fellow from 2001 to 2003. From to 2001, Dean Moore clerked for Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. From 1996 to he was an Honor Program trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch. Dean Moore is a summa cum laude graduate of BYU Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and graduated first in his class. He received his BA from BYU, where he was a Benson scholar and graduated summa cum laude, with University Honors, as co-valedictorian of his college, and first in his class. He and his wife Natalie are the parents of seven wonderful children.

Experience

1. Dean & Sterling and Eleanor Colton Endowed Chair in Law

   Byu Law School

   Jul 2023 — Present · Provo, UT, US

Education

• Brigham Young University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science

  1987 — 1992

• BYU Law School

  Doctor of Law - JD, Law

  1993 — 1996