Gordon Smith has only been Dean of BYU Law for a little over a year, but he is already making a huge impact in his community and beyond. Dean Smith, along with Fastcase 50 alum Kimball Parker, is launching a program this fall aimed at bridging the access to justice gap. The legal design lab, called LawX, will focus on solving a different problem in the law each semester. Students will use a startup approach to create new solutions for the benefit of the public. Dean Smith is also a leading voice in the discussion surrounding corpus linguistics and how courts may use data-driven analysis to interpret the language of the law.
