Jay S. Bybee Biography
Jay S. Bybee currently serves as Assistant Attorney General for
the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He
graduated Magna Cum Laude and with Highest Honors from
Brigham Young University and earned his J.D., Cum Laude, from
the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where he
was on the editorial board of the BYU Law Review.
Following graduation, Mr. Bybee served as law clerk to the
Honorable Donald Russell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit. In 1981, he became an associate in the Washington, DC
office of Sidley & Austin. In 1984, he joined the Department of
Justice, working first in the Office of Legal Policy and then on the
Appellate Staff of the Civil Division. In the Civil Division, Mr.
Bybee prepared briefs and presented oral arguments in the U.S.
Courts of Appeals and drafted Supreme Court briefs. Mr. Bybee served
at the White House from 1989-91 as Associate Counsel to the
President.
In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center
at Louisiana State University as Assistant Professor of Law. He
became Professor of Law in 1998. In 1999, Mr. Bybee joined the
founding faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At both LSU and UNLV, he taught
constitutional law, administrative law, and civil procedure. His
scholarly interests have been primarily in the areas of
constitutional and administrative law. He has published articles in
numerous journals, including The Yale Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law
Review, Northwestern University Law Review, The George Washington
University Law Review, and Tulane Law Review. He was
appointed by President George W. Bush to his current position in
2001.
Mr. Bybee is married and has four children
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