Justin Collings
September 27, Wonder of Scripture Lecture
Justin Collings is the academic vice president of Brigham Young University. Dr. Collings’s focuses of study are constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and constitutional history. In 2006, Dr. Collings graduated with a BA from BYU, double-majoring in English and Italian and minoring in classical civilization. He went on to earn a JD and a PhD in history from Yale. After serving as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he joined the J. Reuben Clark Law School’s faculty in 2013. He is the author of two books published by Oxford University Press: Democracy’s Guardians: A History of the German Federal Constitutional Court, 1951–2001 (2015) and Scales of Memory: Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil (2021). Dr. Collings is also the author of the forthcoming book Divine Law for the Maxwell Institute series, Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants.