Lisa Grow Sun
Professor, BYU Law School
Lisa Grow Sun is the Howard W. Hunter Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where she teaches disaster law, constitutional law, and torts. Her research centers on the intersection of law and disasters. She is a coauthor of the definitive disaster law textbook, "Disaster Law and Policy," with Dan Farber, Jim Chen, and Rob Verchick.
Professor Sun graduated from Harvard Law School summa cum laude, the first woman ever to do so and the first person to do so in 15 years. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then for the Honorable Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court.
She has also taught as a full-time lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and as a visiting professor in the Temple-Tsinghua University master of laws program in Beijing.