Mormon Times briefing

Y. law professor elected president of Association of American Law Schools

PROVO — The House of Representatives of the Association of American Law Schools has elected H. Reese Hansen, a professor and former dean at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, as the 2010 president of the AALS. Hansen will be the first BYU faculty member to serve as president of the AALS. He will serve as president-elect for 2009. "Election as president of the AALS is one of the highest honors that can come to a law professor," said James Gordon, interim dean of the BYU Law School. "It reflects professor Hansen's exceptional leadership in legal education nationally." The AALS is an association of 171 law schools and the nation's principal representative of legal education. Hansen is the Howard W. Hunter Professor of Law at the BYU Law School and joined the faculty of the BYU Law School in 1973 after practicing law in Salt Lake City.

Museum offers D&C tours

The Church History Museum, located in downtown Salt Lake City, will provide a series of theme tours relating to the Doctrine and Covenants beginning in February. The museum tours are designed to help adults study the Doctrine and Covenants in Sunday School and enrich their learning experience.?Each month's tour will have a different topic corresponding with the monthly Sunday School lessons.?The topic for February will be "The Fullness Restored." The free tours must be scheduled in advance by calling 801-240-4615. For more information, visit www.ChurchHistoryMuseum.org.

Workshops to focus on black history

The seventh annual African-American Family History Research Series will feature a keynote address by University of Utah professor of English and ethnic studies Wilfred D. Samuels. The free event will start at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 7 at the Family History Library. The daylong series of workshops includes classes on beginning research, the Freedman Bureau records and DNA research. The series is in commemoration of Black History Month and sponsored by the Utah Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and the Family History Library.Samuels is currently an associate professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and the former director of its African American Studies Program and coordinator of the Ethnic Studies Program.For details, go to FamilySearch.org, then to Family History Library Monthly Class Schedules. To register, e-mail FHLClassReg@ldschurch.org, call 801-240-4950 or register in person by 9 a.m. on Feb. 7. The Family History Library is at 35 N. West Temple, directly west of Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City and just half a block north of the Temple Square TRAX station.

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