The J. Reuben Clark Law Society seeks to affirm the strength brought to the law by a lawyer's personal religious conviction. It also strives through public service and professional excellence to promote fairness and virtue founded upon the rule of law.

 

J. Reuben Clark, a graduate of Columbia University Law School, was a distinguished lawyer who spent most of his career in public service. He served as solicitor of the State Department, Under Secretary of State, and eventually Ambassador to Mexico. During World War I he was a major in the Judge Advocate General's Officers' Reserve Corps, and served for a time while on active duty in the U.S. Attorney General's office preparing emergency legislation and war powers of the President. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. The last 28 years of his life he spent as a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

 

In fulfilling its mission statement, the Student Chapter is guided by the philosophy, personal example, and values of its namesake, J. Reuben Clark, Jr.

 

Those values include: (1) public service, (2) loyalty to the rule of law, and (3) appreciation for the religious dimension in society and in a law student's personal life.