James H. Backman is the Stephen L Richards Professor of Law at Brigham Young University. After 19 years of teaching property law, he began one of the most successful models for a law externship program in the country.
Professor Backman joined the BYU faculty in 1974. He served as the original editor-in-chief of the BYU Law Review (1974). He was founding director of BYU's Jacobsen Center for Service and Learning and university director of BYU’s Office of Academic Internships. He founded the Law School Placement Office (1974), the BYU Journal of Public Law (1975), the LL. M. program for visiting foreign lawyers (1986), the externship program (1992) and the BYU International Law and Management Review (2003).
Professor Backman is married to Lynn Kimball Jones. He is the father of six children and three step-children.
(source: http://www.law2.byu.edu/faculty/profiles2009/profile_fancy.php?id=4)
From the guide to the James H. Backman papers, 1992-2008, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)
